Having barely appeared on the book market in 1919, Hermann Hesse’s novel "Demian," by one of the greatest prose writers, poets, essayists, and classics of German and world literature, immediately won enormous popularity. Thomas Mann wrote: “Unforgettably electrifying was the effect caused soon after the First World War by the novel ‘Demian,’ a work that with merciless precision touched the nerve of the age and evoked the grateful admiration of an entire generation of youth...”