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The future Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse was in the midst of a life crisis when, in 1917, he wrote Demian in a three-week burst of intense writing , publishing it under the pseudonym Emil Sinclair. In it, he describes his coming of age: he experiences humiliations, breaks free from the constraints of his strict upbringing, endures bouts of alcoholism, idealizes a first love, and ultimately finds himself in a World War I military hospital. The older student Demian repeatedly appears at his side, guiding and supporting him in his questions about the connection between good and evil and in his search for his own identity. For both know: the collapse of Europe is imminent, and its rebirth requires new values.

Demian

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“Words of hate pay for words of hate. Blood is paid for with blood.” Aeschylus’ Oresteia tells of the devastating consequences of war, of the eternal spiral of violence and revenge. And finally, of the birth of democracy, a “statute that shall be valid for all time.”

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Isabelle Menke

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