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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
reflective
relaxing
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Demian is an incredibly reflective and inspiring book. There is a good deal of philosophy regarding the world and people, but the real treasure is its numerous introspective moments and narratives that, for me, sets it apart from other philosophical works I've read. Demian is less the story of a boy trying to understand the world, and more of a boy trying to understand himself.
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
«Quería tan sólo intentar vivir lo que tendía a brotar espontáneamente de mí. ¿Por qué había de serme tan difícil?»
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10/10/2021
«El que usted y yo y algunos otros consigamos un día renovar el mundo es cosa que ya se verá. Pero dentro de nosotros mismos tenemos que renovarlo cada día.»
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10/10/2021
«El que usted y yo y algunos otros consigamos un día renovar el mundo es cosa que ya se verá. Pero dentro de nosotros mismos tenemos que renovarlo cada día.»
Impactante, sin palabras. Te atrapa desde las primeras páginas, no te deja indiferente, cierras el libro pero las cuestiones, citas leídas en el libro, conceptos sobre el destino, la humanidad, el caos, la filosofia, el dualismo,... se agolpan ante tí. De lectura imprescindible. Estoy deseando leerme otras obras del autor.
Dark, cryptic tale of one man's trudging through the occult, in an attempt to discover "self."
Loved this book. I am now embarking on reading the rest of Hesse's novels. Want to put down two quotes in particular, found at the end of the novel:
"The community spirit at present is only manifestation of the herd instinct. Men fly into each other's arms because they are afraid of each other-the owners are for themselves, the workers for themselves, the scholars for themselves! And why are they afraid? You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them! They all sense that the rules they live by are no longer valid, that they live according to archaic laws-neither their religion nor their mortality is in any way suited to the needs of the present."
and
"We who wore the sign might justly be considered "odd" by the world; yes, even crazy, and dangerous. We were aware or in the process of becoming aware and our striving was directed toward achieving a more and more complete state of awareness while the striving of the others was a quest aimed at binding their opinions, ideals, duties, their lives and fortunes more and more closely to those of the herd. There, too, was striving, there, too, were power and greatness. But whereas we, who were marked, believed that we represented the will of Nature to something new, to the individualism of the future, the others south to perpetuate the status quo. Humanity-which they loved as we did-was for them something complete that must be maintained and protected. For us, humanity was a distant goal toward which all men were moving, whose image no one knew, whose laws were nowhere written down."
For a book written in 1919 about German men entering WWI, this is quite aligned with the general feeling of the world today.
"The community spirit at present is only manifestation of the herd instinct. Men fly into each other's arms because they are afraid of each other-the owners are for themselves, the workers for themselves, the scholars for themselves! And why are they afraid? You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them! They all sense that the rules they live by are no longer valid, that they live according to archaic laws-neither their religion nor their mortality is in any way suited to the needs of the present."
and
"We who wore the sign might justly be considered "odd" by the world; yes, even crazy, and dangerous. We were aware or in the process of becoming aware and our striving was directed toward achieving a more and more complete state of awareness while the striving of the others was a quest aimed at binding their opinions, ideals, duties, their lives and fortunes more and more closely to those of the herd. There, too, was striving, there, too, were power and greatness. But whereas we, who were marked, believed that we represented the will of Nature to something new, to the individualism of the future, the others south to perpetuate the status quo. Humanity-which they loved as we did-was for them something complete that must be maintained and protected. For us, humanity was a distant goal toward which all men were moving, whose image no one knew, whose laws were nowhere written down."
For a book written in 1919 about German men entering WWI, this is quite aligned with the general feeling of the world today.