A young man's coming-of-age under the spell of his enigmatic friend Max Demian, who guides him beyond conventional morality toward self-knowledge.
Books mentioned in Demian (4)
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “"Can you imagine Faust as a regular in some bar night after night?" ... "Yes, well, we can't all be Faust," I said curtly.”
Pollen (Blütenstaub) by Novalis: “It was a book by Novalis, with letters and aphorisms ... "Fate and character are different names for the same idea."”
A Treatise on Painting by Leonardo da Vinci: “Only several years later did I find this observation confirmed in a book, by Leonardo da Vinci, who spoke of how good and deeply moving it is to look at a wall that many people have spit on.”
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri: “I named her Beatrice, because without having read Dante I already knew about Beatrice from an English painting I had a reproduction of.”