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Demian de Hermann Hesse

Demian

Autor Hermann Hesse
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 dec 2000 – vârsta de la 14 ani

Recomandăm Demian căutătorilor de sens, tinerilor aflați la răscruce și cititorilor care privesc literatura ca pe un instrument de introspecție psihologică. Descoperim aici nu doar un roman de formare, ci o hartă a conștiinței umane, scrisă într-un moment de profundă transformare personală a autorului. Povestea lui Emil Sinclair, un băiat prins între confortul lumii „luminoase” a familiei și atracția obscură a realității exterioare, devine universală prin întâlnirea cu Max Demian. Acesta din urmă nu este doar un prieten, ci un catalizator spiritual care îl forțează pe Sinclair să privească dincolo de dualitățile simpliste ale moralității convenționale.

Putem afirma că forța acestui text rezidă în onestitatea cu care Hermann Hesse își transpune propriile frământări — de la conflictele cu părinții până la experiența sanatoriului — într-o narațiune densă, impregnată de simbolism jungian. Cei care au parcurs Siddhartha de Hermann Hesse vor fi pregătiți pentru această călătorie spre interior, însă vor găsi în Demian un ton mai sumbru, mai ancorat în tensiunea dintre individ și normele sociale. Dacă în Narcissus and Goldmund autorul explora dihotomia dintre spirit și simțuri prin decorul medieval, aici el aduce dezbaterea în planul psihologiei moderne și al gnosticismului.

Ritmul lecturii este unul meditativ, alternând momente de realism cotidian cu pasaje de o intensitate onirică. Este o operă care nu oferă răspunsuri facile, ci propune o „cale a păsării care zboară spre Dumnezeu”, simbolizând efortul dureros de a deveni propriul sine într-o lume care cere conformitate.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780486414133
ISBN-10: 0486414132
Pagini: 128
Dimensiuni: 133 x 212 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Dover Publications

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este o resursă esențială pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă procesul de individualizare. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă profundă asupra modului în care umbrele și îndoielile pot deveni trepte către iluminare. Este o lectură fundamentală pentru a înțelege de ce Hermann Hesse a devenit un autor-cult, oferind un vocabular spiritual pentru crizele de identitate specifice tranziției către maturitate.

Despre autor

Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) a fost un poet, romancier și pictor germano-elvețian, una dintre cele mai influente figuri ale literaturaturii universale din secolul XX. Marcat de o educație religioasă riguroasă și de o fire rebelă, Hesse a explorat constant tema căutării autenticității și a cunoașterii de sine. Opera sa, care include titluri monumentale precum Steppenwolf și The Glass Bead Game, îmbină misticismul oriental cu filozofia occidentală. În 1946, a primit Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură, recunoaștere a profunzimii cu care a analizat condiția umană și lupta individului pentru libertate spirituală.

Descriere

A brilliant psychological portrait of a troubled young man's quest for self-awareness, this coming-of-age novel achieved instant critical and popular acclaim upon its 1919 publication. A landmark in the history of 20th-century literature, it reflects the author's preoccupation with the duality of human nature and the pursuit of spiritual fullfillment. Excellent new English translation. Introduction.

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"All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?"
Generations of readers have recognized the impassioned cry that introduces the young narrator of "Demian," and embraced this tale of a troubled young man's struggle toward self-awareness. Initially published in Berlin in 1919, the novel met with instant critical acclaim, as well as great popular success among people seeking answers amid the devastating aftermath of World War I.
A brilliant psychological portrait of an individual's departure from social conventions in the search for spiritual fulfillment, "Demian" encompasses many of the themes associated with Hermann Hesse, its Noble Prize winning author, particularly the duality of human nature and the quest for inner peace.
Considered an important work in the evolution of 20th-century European literature, this perceptive coming-of-age novel enjoys a particular resonance with young adults, a fact that has made "Demian" a perennial favorite in schools and colleges all over the world. This inexpensive edition, featuring an excellent new English translation, is sure to be welcomed by teachers and students, and by the legions of confirmed Hesse fans."

Notă biografică

Hermann Hesse (1877­ߝ1962) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. His many books include Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, and Narcissus and Goldmund.

Damion Searls has translated many classic twentieth-century authors, including Proust, Rilke, and Thomas Bernhard. His translation of Hans Keilson’s Comedy in a Minor Key was a New York Times Notable Book and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Searls lives in Brooklyn.
Ralph Freedman is a professor emeritus of comparative literature at Princeton University and the author of an acclaimed biography of Hermann Hesse. He lives in Decatur, Georgia.
James Franco is an Oscar-nominated actor and director. His writing has appeared in Esquire, the Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney’s. Franco lives in New York.

Extras

Foreword
My friend Demian
I remember reading Demian for the first time. It was the beginning of summer, I had turned nineteen in April, and I was working at a café on the UCLA campus, selling deli sandwiches, microwaved pizza, cheap Mexican hash, and glistening Chinese. I had spent the previous school year studying English literature but had recently taken the plunge into the raging sea of film acting and was freshly making my way through the tide pools of acting school. I had not auditioned for the UCLA theater program and thus had been forced to take classes in the Valley, and just before the spring quarter at UCLA had ended I decided to devote myself full time to acting. My parents didn’t object, saying only that they would support me as long as I studied at the university, but if I wanted to be an artist I had to find my own way.
Working at the north campus eatery, I was serving the students who once had been my classmates. My boss was a graduate student with a shaved head except in two spots that he dyed red and gelled into six-inch horns. I’ll call him Bill. I remember liking Bill if only because he was closer to my age than any boss I’d ever had, but he was still a boss. I was working to support my dream (one of a few) to become a film actor, and my employer looked like the devil.
On my breaks I read plays by O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Shaw, Ibsen, Chekhov, and anyone else who might help me understand my chosen profession. It turned out that the grinding aspect of the job was not Bill’s constant watch as I loaded meat and mustard on sandwiches or scooped chili rellenos from the tin, depending on the day of the week; it was the boredom. I know now that I learned much about responsibility, dedication, and service from that humble job, but back then I had dreams of grandeur. I had left school in order to become the best actor in the world, and here I was, back on campus serving the very people who had been inviting me to frat parties a few months prior. I seemed to have taken five steps backwards, and the fact that I had left a top-rated university to join an army of hopefuls trying to break into a famously competitive industry often seemed like a fool’s quest.
On the wall next to the pizza service section was a framed photo of an elderly Marlon Brando being led by a man in a suit and a football helmet through a throng of photographers and gawkers. I’m pretty sure it was taken around the time of Brando’s son’s murder trial, but it inspired me as I served the slop: Brando was the pinnacle of film acting, and his picture was a reminder of the great tradition I hoped to be a part of.
After a couple months I started reading Demian. I’m not sure if there was a connection, but one day, without warning, I hung up my apron and walked out the back, never to return. I had planned to work that day, so once taking my exit I didn’t know where to go. With Demian folded in my pocket, I headed into Westwood, full of the passion of what I had done. On the edge of campus I ran into one of my former classmates, a girl I once had flirted with, sunning herself on the grass. I told her what had happened, but it didn’t seem to register. I felt like I had taken another step away from a conformist life and another step toward artistic freedom, but, talking to her, I sounded to myself like I was an immature kid who had quit his job.
At a café I jumped back into Demian, and I felt like I was understood again. Emil Sinclair, the narrator, is also on a search. His vacillation between good and bad, between expected pursuits and his own artistic path, seemed to mirror mine. Like so many young people in the ninety years since its publication, I felt like Hermann Hesse was describing my own interior and exterior struggles. Sinclair had Demian to help guide him, but I had yet to find my artistic mentor. Instead I had the book.
Demian became my Demian, a voice I could listen to and contemplate as I tried to find my way from childhood to adulthood and into the world of art. Of course there were many turns in the road ahead—I would get a job at McDonald’s, get work as an actor, grow to hate much of the work I did, expand my artistic horizons (Hesse became not just a writer but also a celebrated painter)—but reading Demian was an important step in the direction of a life that resonated with my ideals.
James Franco

Recenzii

“Hesse is a writer whose peculiar vision is worth inspecting. His world is shadowy and close to areas of the heart that will probably never see light. But his vision is a rare one, as commendable for its humane solicitude as for its strangeness and unearthly color.” — National Review
"What Catcher in the Rye has come to mean for America's younger generation, Demian proved to be for Germany's early post-WWI youth. . . . A quite believable, fascinating, moving portrait of youth." — Kirkus Reviews