Itself is peculiarly weak and fatuous from the ignorance, the incorrigible arrogance which it expresses and which one would tliink had brought misery enough to this ill-fated people. A well-known composer in Munich, obstinately German and bitterly angry, in a recent letter to America called us both, Hesse and me, "wretches" because we do not believe that we Germans are the highest and noblest of peoples, "a canary among a flock in the strangest Tioned together from time to time, and even Only natural that our names should be men. Gready enjoys and of which, he remarks, Magister Ludi Half ironic ceremonial, Chinese in character, Ing between his Joseph Knecht and the Benedictine friar Jaco-īus in Glasperlenspiel which cannot take place without the "playfulĪnd prolonged ceremony of endless bowings same, in some sense ers,Īnd yet in some sense the course is the we are indeed fellow pilgrims and broth. Removed from each other in space, so far that at times no communication was possible, yet always together, always ness The outer events, in particular the inevitable ruin of unhappy Germany, both of us foresaw and both lived to withand. Indeed the time seems even longer, soĪmid the stress and uproar of this convulsive age, so much has come from the uninterrupted industry of our own and, even No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without the prior written permission of All rightsĪ full decade has passed since I last shook Hermann Hesse's hand. This editionĪrrangement with HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted by arrangement with Henry Holt and Company, LLC. Introduction copyright © 1948 by Henry Holt and Company. Thomas Mann's introduction to Demian: The Story of Emit Sinclair's Youth by Hermann Hesse.
Printings- did Hesse reveal that he was the writer.ĭEMIAN THE STORY OF EM!L SINCLAIR'S YOUTHĭemian LC Control Number: 2010929527 ISBN-13: 978-1-60671-028-9 Overseen by a number of mentor figures, most prominently the charismatic Max Demian, just a older than Sinclair but wiseĪnd Demian's mother, Frau Eva, a magnificent, protective, nurturing allĪnd rejection of old values, speculation aboutīeen published under the name of Emil Sinclair. Sinclair rejects the rigid religious teachings of hisįamily and, later, the conventions and constraints of the society around him. Searching university student to a war-weary soldier. Of the mature, independent personality from
Personal crises of his father's death, his younger son's serious illness, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and Author of Siddhartha
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