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In Demian, one of the great writers of the twentieth century tells the dramatic story of young, docile Emil Sinclair's descent--led by precocious shoolmate Max Demian--into a secret and dangerous world of petty crime and revolt against convention and eventual
...(more) awakening to selfhood. "The electrifying influence exercised on a whole generation just after the First World War by Demian...is unforgettable. With uncanny accuracy this poetic work struck the nerve of the times and called forth grateful rapture from a whole youthful generation who believed that an interpreter of their innermost life had risen from their own midst." -- From the Introduction by Thomas Mann(less)
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Every sentence so loaded and potent that it speaks so much more than it actually says. This is one of the greatest books of all time in my eyes, and moreso because Hesse wrote so much in such few words. It's a different kind of masterpiece from what Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky wrote in that where they relied on details, Hesse gets across with the synergy of his choice words.