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About the product «Demian» is a philosophical novel, dark and mystical. It can also be considered autobiographical — this is what Hesse says in the preface. A landmark work that had a huge impact on the writer’s later work, and the great Thomas Mann compared this book with «The Sorrows of Young Werther». This is the story of the growing up and formation of a young man who, step by step, moves further and further from the hypocritical norms of public morality and more and more clearly discovers a deep, dark «I» — free, not subject to the virtuous pharisaism reigning around. In this he is helped by a mysterious friend Demian — the bearer of the «seal of Cain», either a devil, or a mysterious deity, or just a product of the hero’s imagination …
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