Demyan. Gertruda

Demian is a philosophical novel, gloomy and mystical. It can be considered and autobiographical - hessa declares about this. An iconic work that has enormous influence on the further creativity of the writer, and the Great Thomas Mann compared this book with the suffering of a young verte, I is the unqualified reigning around the virtuous pharyce. In this, the mysterious friend Deemian helps him - the carrier Press of Cain, not the devil, not the mysterious deity, not that simply make the hero"s imagination ...
Roman Gertruda refers to the early period of the work of Herman Hesse. The story, which was repeatedly called the artistic embodiment of the motives of the birth of tragedy Nietzsche, is devoted to the drama of a young composer, forced to choose between reasonable and spontaneous onset in creativity. The real details of the life of Hesse and the very features characteristic of him, presented by various characters, give the book a special, deep meaning.
What is art? Self-denial - or spiritual permissiveness? Why does an art person doomed to eternal loneliness? Each of the heroes of Roman Hesse answers these questions in its own way