Demian Author:Hermann Hesse Demian's face: — "...it was not a boy's face, but a man's; I also felt or saw that it was not entirely the face of a man either, but had something feminine about it, too. Yet the face struck me at that moment as neither masculine nor childlike, neither old nor yong, but somehow a thousand years old, somehow timeless, bearing the scars of entirel... more »y different history than we knew; animals could look like that, or trees, or planets--none of this did I know consciously, I did not feel precisley what I say about it now as an adult, only something of the kind. Perhaps he was handsome, perhaps I liked him, perhaps I also found him repulsive, I could not be sure of that either. All I saw was that he was different from us, he was like an animal or like a spirit or like a picture, he was different, unimaginably different from the rest of us."« less