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Demian by Hermann Hesse

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Demian Quotes
710 words, approx. 2 pages
(1919) by Hermann Hesse (from the Prologue) "But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never...


Author Biography

Name: Hermann Hesse
Birth Date: June 2, 1877
Death Date: August 9, 1962
Place of Birth: Calw, Germany
Place of Death: Montagnola, Switzerland
Nationality: German
Gender: Male
Occupations: author

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Biography of Hermann Hesse
15714 words, approx. 52.4 pages
Only a few German writers of the twentieth century have enjoyed worldwide acclaim. Undisputably numbered among these are Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, and Hermann Hesse. Hesse's major works have been translated into some thirty-five languages...
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Biography of Hermann Hesse
14348 words, approx. 47.8 pages
Only a few German writers of the twentieth century have enjoyed worldwide acclaim. Undisputably numbered among these are Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, and Hermann Hesse. Hesse's major works have been translated into some thirty-five languages...
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Biography of Hermann Hesse
4896 words, approx. 16.3 pages
Hermann Hesse, the most widely translated German author of the twentieth century, authored what he liked to call "biographies of the soul." Though many of his best-known works were novels, they were largely autobiographical, and centered recurrently on o...
 


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Demian Information
898 words, approx. 3 pages
Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth is a Bildungsroman by Hermann Hesse, first published in 1919, but a prologue was added in 1960. Demian was first published under the pseudonym "Emil Sinclair", the name of the narrator of the story, but Hesse...


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Sugar growers may share ethanol action
8/17/2007: 696 words, approx. 2 pages
Congress is hoping that an ethanol industry with an endless appetite for corn will have a sweet tooth too.Under the farm bill the House passed last month, the federal government would buy surplus sugar and sell it to ethanol producers, where it would be used...


Criticism and Essays
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Critical Essay by Joseph Mileck
1,114 words, approx. 4 pages
A review of Hesse's prose and poetry reveals three distinct periods. Each represents a different stage in the course of the author's struggle with himself and with life as a whole, and each reflects a correspondingly different phase in his style. The first of these three periods, the two decades preceding Demian …, is one of uncertainty and vague presentiment. These are the early years of a sensitive outsider who cannot cope directly with his particular problem of existence. He resorts ...
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Critical Essay by Rudolf Koester
837 words, approx. 3 pages
Youth is one of Hesse's major literary themes. (p. 181) [In his work, there] is one recurring theme, essentially a reiteration of that of Demian, the tortured development of genuine individuality.


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