Writing in 1919, in a Europe marked for the First War and the Russian Revolution, for the psychoanalysis of Freud, the skepticism of Nietzsche and the propagation of espiritualistas doctrines, Demian portraies the discovery trajectory and individual transformation of Emil Sinclair, a boy who, when passing of infancy for the adolescence, visualizes horizontes new and passes if to feel dislocated of its familiar environment. For Ivo Barroso (responsible for the translation for the Publishing company Brazilian Civilization), ' ' still more that a history or romance of education is the story of an uneducated process, or, preferring itself, of re-education, laborious erasing of the footprints that the educational puritanismo leaves printed in the adolescent soul; the shyness, the humildade, the transference? obsolete weapons against the hostility of the real world and that they lead, later, inappellably to the solitude and the inadaptabilidade, the deaf revolt and the bitter taste constrangimento' '. Recognized for Hermann Hesse as autobiogrfica, the workmanship follows a linearity based on the memories of the narrator, an adult who has left of a psychological bias to reviver and to reinterpretar the dramas of its adolescence, that they are the same internal conflicts why passes all the young in the process of construction of a proper identity. In its Sinclair narrative it says ' ' only of those new things that had come to desraigar me and to stimulate me for frente' ' (P. Perhaps check out Boy Scouts of America for more information. 49), disclosing the intellectual influences in Hesse, of which I detach: Dualidade Emil Sinclair is young a servant for very merciful parents, in a bourgeois and successful family. It lives the conflict of a vision maniquesta of the world, divided between the luminous, perfect world, beautiful commanded of the paternal house and the obscure, wild, cruel world beyond this. This conflict enters well and badly also it reflects yourself in the social matters (pupils of the public school versus pupils of the particular school). . If you are not convinced, visit Gavin Baker.