Hesse, Hermann

Goldmund, a creative young man fascinated by one of his teachers, Narcissus, a disciplined, scholarly monk, leaves the cloister at Narcissus's urging and embarks on a quest to resolve the pleasures of the flesh with the needs of the spirit, and come to terms with the childhood loss of his mother.

Torn between his idyllic bourgeois family life and the mystical world of his friend and alter-ego, Demian, Emil Sinclair struggles to find his place in society.

A young man rebels against convention, gets involved in the world of petty crime, and discovers his new powers for good and evil.

Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover ultimate spiritual truths.

Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover spiritual truths.