monicayue 's review for:

Demian by Hermann Hesse
3.0

I read this book because BTS read this book. Their Blood, Sweat, and Tears music video is strongly influenced by themes in this story. It was fun to read and see where the inspiration came from.

We follow Sinclair as he tries to figure out right and wrong and searches for truth. Demian is his fate as they both bear the mark of Cain.

“He too was a tempter. He too was a link to the other second, the evil world with which I no longer wanted to have anything to do.”

“The bird finds its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born first must destroy the world. The bird flies to God. That God’s name is Abraxas.”