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Rating: Demian opens your eyes, it disrupts you by turning your lazy certainties and habits upside down, showing you the way to become an "enlightened" one: that is, someone who in life has no other duty than to search for oneself, so that one can truly be oneself fully.
Demian opens your mind, it truly urges you to think, encouraging you to confront the limits, fears, and dogmas that living in a society, which from childhood imposes revealed truths, forces you to reckon with.
Demian allows you to live life as a human being and not as the puppet you were until yesterday: a human being who manages to follow their own dreams, desires, passions, their own "voices", their nature "without wondering whether it pleases the teacher, or dad, or some good god" because "this only leads to ruining oneself", becoming "lifeless fossils".
Demian is a travel companion: it could be a friend, a relative, a child, your man, your woman, a movie, a record, a painting, a book, a comic, a phrase, a pain, a joy, your worst or best action, your aged image reflected in the mirror. Demian is anything that can unsettle your soul in such a way that it shows itself for what it truly is, without adding or removing anything that does not reveal it in all its brightness and darkness.
Demian is already inside you; maybe you haven't realized it yet, but sooner or later you will encounter him by living and not pretending to live while dying inside.
And don't think that Demian is the protagonist, because the protagonist is you.
"Come as you are soaked in bleach (...) Come as you are" Kurt Cobain
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By Darius
Demian is a complete, rich, dense, deep, and intense novel, an excellent summary of Hesse’s work.
With the voice of Demian, the exegete sent by the Divine to unveil the mysteries of the Other to the bearers of the mark.
