A review by mistigris
Demian by Hermann Hesse

5.0

A story recounting the misery that is the end of childhood and the struggle that follows to accept a world that is not perfect but beautiful nonetheless.

"I had forgotten that the world could still be so lovely. I had grown accustomed to living within myself. I was resigned to the knowledge that I had lost all appreciation of the outside world, that the loss of my childhood, and that, in a certain sense, one had to pay for freedom and maturity of the soul with the renunciation of this cherished aura"