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Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
by Hermann Hesse
A book that changed my life. It shone a spotlight on all my pains, struggles, desperation and made them all seem like valid branches in the tree of life. They exist in everyone's life.
Everything that Emil goes through seemed like a reflection of a period in my past. I felt like those were the lanes I had trodden once and had learnt differently through them. I could see myself in Emil and see something beyond myself too.
Emil Sinclair is the personification of a person learning, un-learning, stretching and testing his wings to make sense of life and give it a semblance of purpose. Demian may be viewed as Emil's mentor in the beginning of the book, coaxing him and encouraging him to listen to his mind, come out of the restrictions put by those in the past who could never dream up the present. However, towards the end of the book Demian transforms into Emil's inner voice, a sense of true freedom that lies within us but is seldom let out due to various fears and barriers.
I don't think I can absorb all that the book has to say in one reading. I found something in Demian to read again and again over my life and learn and un-learn every time I read it.
For an existential literature glutton like me, this was the pinnacle of everything.
Everything that Emil goes through seemed like a reflection of a period in my past. I felt like those were the lanes I had trodden once and had learnt differently through them. I could see myself in Emil and see something beyond myself too.
Emil Sinclair is the personification of a person learning, un-learning, stretching and testing his wings to make sense of life and give it a semblance of purpose. Demian may be viewed as Emil's mentor in the beginning of the book, coaxing him and encouraging him to listen to his mind, come out of the restrictions put by those in the past who could never dream up the present. However, towards the end of the book Demian transforms into Emil's inner voice, a sense of true freedom that lies within us but is seldom let out due to various fears and barriers.
I don't think I can absorb all that the book has to say in one reading. I found something in Demian to read again and again over my life and learn and un-learn every time I read it.
For an existential literature glutton like me, this was the pinnacle of everything.