Demian

“Demian” is a philosophical novel, gloomy and mystical. It can also be considered autobiographical - Hesse declares this in the preface. A significant work, which had a huge impact on the future work of the writer, and the great Thomas Mann compared this book with the “suffering of the young Werther.”
This is the story of growing up and the formation of a young man, who steps farther away from hypocritical norms of social morality and everything. The deep, dark “I” - free, not subject to the reigning around the virtuous Pharisaism, has discovered for itself. In this, the mysterious friend Demian helps him - the bearer of the seal of Cain, either the devil, or the mysterious deity, or just a product of the hero’s imagination