Demian Author:Hermann Hesse Nobel Prize-winner Hermann Hesse was one of the most daring innovators in modern fiction. Writing in the existential tradition of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, he was one of the first novelists to make use of the discoveries of Sigmund Freud. To these he added his own far-reaching speculations on the supernatural. In Demian, he dramatized the dilemm... more »a of the marked man, the outcast, the quasi-criminal hero who rejects society and strives to find a higher meaning in a strange world of his own making.« less