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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
(que alguien me explique por qué la única edición que me aparece es una en alemán???????? what?????????? bueno)
CUESTIÓN QUE leí este libro después de cómo desaparecer completamente y quedé super enloquecida con las tematicas que plantean PORQUE si bien son distintas las formas en las que se desarrollan, siento que el proceso interno y las catastrofes de ambos personajes principales (Matías y Sinclair) son IGUALES. quitando que herman hesse te tira quinientos palos filosóficos y te deja mirando la pared como qué es mi existencia mientras que mariana enríquez me dejó más que nada llorando, y que uno de estos personajes es tremendo burgués y el otro no tiene para comer, veo sus similitudes y me deja bastante emocionada/pasmada/shockeada/con ganas de releer ambos libros/todas las anteriores. pero bueno, yendo a Demian en sí, hice tremendo análisis de todo en mi cabeza (que concluyó en muchas notas de voz larguísimas enviadas a un amigo, ida y vuelta), que no tengo ni ganas de ponerme a traspasar acá. Pero cuestión que sigo dudando de si algo de esto realmente pasó, si Sinclair está pirucho (la gran Fight Club), si hay tremenda homosexualidad reprimida, o si es simplemente el temor que tenemos a ser quienes realmente llevamos dentro.
"Quería tan solo intentar vivir aquello que tendía a brotar espontáneamente de mí. ¿Por qué había de serme tan difícil?"
CUESTIÓN QUE leí este libro después de cómo desaparecer completamente y quedé super enloquecida con las tematicas que plantean PORQUE si bien son distintas las formas en las que se desarrollan, siento que el proceso interno y las catastrofes de ambos personajes principales (Matías y Sinclair) son IGUALES. quitando que herman hesse te tira quinientos palos filosóficos y te deja mirando la pared como qué es mi existencia mientras que mariana enríquez me dejó más que nada llorando, y que uno de estos personajes es tremendo burgués y el otro no tiene para comer, veo sus similitudes y me deja bastante emocionada/pasmada/shockeada/con ganas de releer ambos libros/todas las anteriores. pero bueno, yendo a Demian en sí, hice tremendo análisis de todo en mi cabeza (que concluyó en muchas notas de voz larguísimas enviadas a un amigo, ida y vuelta), que no tengo ni ganas de ponerme a traspasar acá. Pero cuestión que sigo dudando de si algo de esto realmente pasó, si Sinclair está pirucho (la gran Fight Club), si hay tremenda homosexualidad reprimida, o si es simplemente el temor que tenemos a ser quienes realmente llevamos dentro.
"Quería tan solo intentar vivir aquello que tendía a brotar espontáneamente de mí. ¿Por qué había de serme tan difícil?"
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It’s very introspective, almost philosophical. It was nice to read but sometimes a little bit complicated but it’s probably just me.
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Queue up the Danny devito “I get it now” gif cause yeah
funny
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
reflective
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Emil Sinclair grows up.
And he leaves the sphere of home, of his mother and father, and the simple childhood world.
He meets Demian, and through him, experiences a whole new world - adolescence with first glimpses into adulthood. He experiences love and fear like he hadn't known before, and has to learn to reckon with this new, more complicated, more scary world.
What can I say, I just love Hesse's writing style. And I love a good book about how fucking scary it is to grow up.
And he leaves the sphere of home, of his mother and father, and the simple childhood world.
He meets Demian, and through him, experiences a whole new world - adolescence with first glimpses into adulthood. He experiences love and fear like he hadn't known before, and has to learn to reckon with this new, more complicated, more scary world.
What can I say, I just love Hesse's writing style. And I love a good book about how fucking scary it is to grow up.
A boy discovers that Christianity doesn't have all the answers and that there is a duality in the world of light and dark. He meets a young man named Demian who appears to encapsulate these transgressive thoughts and becomes enchanted by him and everyone else who has opened their eyes to the truth.
The writing is fine and goes along nicely (especially the last few chapters) but I couldn't help but feel that I was being lectured at by Hesse about his hippy spirituality. And this is the third time he's done this to me. In Steppenwolf (also about the two sides of humanity) it was forgivable because that book was so engaging, with a narrative which meant the magical stuff felt earned. Then he did it again in Siddhartha but that was entirely about spiritual enlightenment so fair enough. Knowing that he does this a lot has, however, slightly tarnished my memory of Steppenwolf and made Hesse seem like a rather one-note bore (I hope that isn't the case). As much I enjoy being told about the magical ideas of the ancient world, there does seem to be a mild fetish going on here with him. And hiding it behind ethereal notions of vague telepathy and obscure Hindu myths doesn't do much for me either. At one point, Hesse even talked about the herd (like some teenager in his basement calling other people on the internet 'sheeple'), and I frankly wasn't very impressed by that whole... we see things differently. In all honesty, Hesse and his wooly spiritualism are the least interesting things about him for me.
By the end, Demian's mother simply came across as a cult leader with an unhealthy interest in younger men. I guess you have buy into that spiritual stuff to find such things profound or intriguing. With Steppenwolf, it worked, but not here. The book is short, though and, like most of Hesse's work, well written.
I would still recommend it.
The writing is fine and goes along nicely (especially the last few chapters) but I couldn't help but feel that I was being lectured at by Hesse about his hippy spirituality. And this is the third time he's done this to me. In Steppenwolf (also about the two sides of humanity) it was forgivable because that book was so engaging, with a narrative which meant the magical stuff felt earned. Then he did it again in Siddhartha but that was entirely about spiritual enlightenment so fair enough. Knowing that he does this a lot has, however, slightly tarnished my memory of Steppenwolf and made Hesse seem like a rather one-note bore (I hope that isn't the case). As much I enjoy being told about the magical ideas of the ancient world, there does seem to be a mild fetish going on here with him. And hiding it behind ethereal notions of vague telepathy and obscure Hindu myths doesn't do much for me either. At one point, Hesse even talked about the herd (like some teenager in his basement calling other people on the internet 'sheeple'), and I frankly wasn't very impressed by that whole... we see things differently. In all honesty, Hesse and his wooly spiritualism are the least interesting things about him for me.
By the end, Demian's mother simply came across as a cult leader with an unhealthy interest in younger men. I guess you have buy into that spiritual stuff to find such things profound or intriguing. With Steppenwolf, it worked, but not here. The book is short, though and, like most of Hesse's work, well written.
I would still recommend it.
medium-paced
