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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
There have been millions upon millions ways to live this mystery that we call life. There's this susceptible burden added to the already existing existential loneliness once the possibilities are revealed. Under these civilized times of modernity, we have been more normalized, homogenized, globalized, glocalized with no roots to hold on for anyone. Maybe more we tend to integrate and try to form a homogenized culture, there will always be an inherent differences in opinions and formation of counter cultures. There'll always be hippies, supertramps, mystics, philosophers who don't want to play the game of the popular ones.
Demian offers one such possibility of living where Emil Sinclair with his simple narrative takes the readers into his own mind with poetic potentials to make the readers feel; certainly nostalgic. Through the means of loneliness, urges repressed under morality and norms, it's a plain exploration of an adolescent mind with perking compounds of feelings and sensation.
From characterizing the self-reproached, hopeless being cut off from the world and life as envisioned and constrained by the social necessities, Sinclair slowly learns to live with himself and explores the reality of his own dark side of his being with the help of his friend Demian and a few others.
The tale is briefly poignant and heavily Jungian. I suspect the writer must have been recently exposed to the ideas of people like Jung and Nietzsche.
Though the writing is simple and poetic most of the times, the mysticism of the writer-poet gives out a few obscure passages left open for interpretations.
The qualities of his friend Demian is served as the archetype for Emil Sinclair. Demian in itself has some of the archetypal rudiments of Jesus Christ and Friedrich Nietzsche, I feel.
Demian is a story that could inspire readers to take a momentary break from the perpetual toiling that we brought it upon ourselves and, with a brief sigh, to try experiencing the nature and reality that is present in oneself.
Demian is a story of finding home for a brief moment of eternity to dwell within for the rest of the living.
"I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me."
Demian offers one such possibility of living where Emil Sinclair with his simple narrative takes the readers into his own mind with poetic potentials to make the readers feel; certainly nostalgic. Through the means of loneliness, urges repressed under morality and norms, it's a plain exploration of an adolescent mind with perking compounds of feelings and sensation.
From characterizing the self-reproached, hopeless being cut off from the world and life as envisioned and constrained by the social necessities, Sinclair slowly learns to live with himself and explores the reality of his own dark side of his being with the help of his friend Demian and a few others.
The tale is briefly poignant and heavily Jungian. I suspect the writer must have been recently exposed to the ideas of people like Jung and Nietzsche.
Though the writing is simple and poetic most of the times, the mysticism of the writer-poet gives out a few obscure passages left open for interpretations.
The qualities of his friend Demian is served as the archetype for Emil Sinclair. Demian in itself has some of the archetypal rudiments of Jesus Christ and Friedrich Nietzsche, I feel.
Demian is a story that could inspire readers to take a momentary break from the perpetual toiling that we brought it upon ourselves and, with a brief sigh, to try experiencing the nature and reality that is present in oneself.
Demian is a story of finding home for a brief moment of eternity to dwell within for the rest of the living.
"I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me."
dark
reflective
medium-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
نثرش با بيشتر چيزهايى كه قبلا خونده بودم فرق داشت. و كلى كلمه هاىِ سخت! كه مجبور بودم هى توى فرهنگ هاى لغت رو نگاه كنم!!!
ولى دركش ميكردم، و كلا يك طورِ خيلى خاص بود. شايد نبايد ٥ بدم، ولى بنظرم ٤ خيلى كمه براش ! :دى
+ ما هميشه شخصيت خودمان را خيى زياد محدود و پايبند مى كنيم. ما فقط آن چيزى را شخصيتِ خود مى دانيم كه در مقام يك فرد آن را به گونه اى ديگر مى آزماييم، يا مى پذيريم كه تفاوت دارند. با وجود اين ما، يكايك ما، پاره اى از هستى كل دنيا هستيم و چون پيكر ما مراحلى از تكامل ما را از ماهى و حتى خيلى پيش از آن در خود نهان دارد، در نتيجه در روح مان آن چيزهايى را داريم كه از آن زمان تاكنون در فكر و مخيله ى بشر وجود داشته است. تمامى خدايان و اهريمن ها، خواه مربوط به يونانى ها و خواه مربوط به چينى ها يا زولوها، در وجود ما هستند، البته به صورت احتمالات، خواسته ها و تمايلات،و مفّر. اگر نژاد انسانى از بين برود و فقط يك كودك عقب افتاده ى آموزش ناديده از آن برجاى بماند، اين كودك راه تكامل را از نو كف مى كند، مى تواند خدا بيافريند، و اهريمن و بهشت، فرامين يا فرايض دينى، و تمامىِ كتاب هاى عهد عتيق و عهد جديد، و هر چيز ديگرى را، از نو بيافريند و بنويسد.
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اما آنگاه كه كسى را نه از روى عادت بلكه خودخواسته و رها ازهر قيد و بند دوست مى داريم يا حرمت مى گذاريم، و آنگاه كه از صميم قلب كودك و دوست بوده ايم، چون ناگهان دريابيم كه يم سِيْر يا جريان خواستِ درونى ما را از افرادى كه دوست مى داريم دور مى كند دشوارترين و تلخترين ساعات زندگيمان فرا مى رسد.
ولى دركش ميكردم، و كلا يك طورِ خيلى خاص بود. شايد نبايد ٥ بدم، ولى بنظرم ٤ خيلى كمه براش ! :دى
+ ما هميشه شخصيت خودمان را خيى زياد محدود و پايبند مى كنيم. ما فقط آن چيزى را شخصيتِ خود مى دانيم كه در مقام يك فرد آن را به گونه اى ديگر مى آزماييم، يا مى پذيريم كه تفاوت دارند. با وجود اين ما، يكايك ما، پاره اى از هستى كل دنيا هستيم و چون پيكر ما مراحلى از تكامل ما را از ماهى و حتى خيلى پيش از آن در خود نهان دارد، در نتيجه در روح مان آن چيزهايى را داريم كه از آن زمان تاكنون در فكر و مخيله ى بشر وجود داشته است. تمامى خدايان و اهريمن ها، خواه مربوط به يونانى ها و خواه مربوط به چينى ها يا زولوها، در وجود ما هستند، البته به صورت احتمالات، خواسته ها و تمايلات،و مفّر. اگر نژاد انسانى از بين برود و فقط يك كودك عقب افتاده ى آموزش ناديده از آن برجاى بماند، اين كودك راه تكامل را از نو كف مى كند، مى تواند خدا بيافريند، و اهريمن و بهشت، فرامين يا فرايض دينى، و تمامىِ كتاب هاى عهد عتيق و عهد جديد، و هر چيز ديگرى را، از نو بيافريند و بنويسد.
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اما آنگاه كه كسى را نه از روى عادت بلكه خودخواسته و رها ازهر قيد و بند دوست مى داريم يا حرمت مى گذاريم، و آنگاه كه از صميم قلب كودك و دوست بوده ايم، چون ناگهان دريابيم كه يم سِيْر يا جريان خواستِ درونى ما را از افرادى كه دوست مى داريم دور مى كند دشوارترين و تلخترين ساعات زندگيمان فرا مى رسد.
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
3,9
dark
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
"all I wanted to do was try to live the life that was inside me, trying to get out. why was that so hard"
i liked it but i don’t think i’m the target audience, didn’t resonate with me as much as i maybe expected it to?
The concept of the book is really great, the idea of developing a story based on the growth of a child marked with the Cain signal is absolutely outstanding, though the book Hesse lets the reader live the fears and feelings Sinclair is having and adds a sort of magical character under the name of Demian who is a complete mystery thorough the book.
Really good book
Really good book
Lo amo tanto que tengo un tatuaje por este libro. Lo leí en un momento correcto y consiguió que cambiase completamente mi mentalidad. Amo que sea como fumarse un porro pero a la vez explique tan bien cosas que le pasan a todo el mundo alguna vez.