Demian (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Berghahn, V. R., Imperial Germany, 1871 – 1914, Berghahn Books, 1994.

  Berghahn provides a history of the German empire, from its formation in 1871 until the beginning of World War I.

• Hesse, Hermann, Soul of the Age: Selected Letters of Hermann Hesse, 1891 – 1962, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991.

  Soul of the Age is an edited selection of the letters of Hesse, including his correspondence with such notables as the writers Thomas Mann and André Gide, and modern Jewish philosopher Martin Buber.

• Marrer-Tising, Carlee, The Reception of Hermann Hesse by the Youth in the United States: A Thematic Analysis, P. Lang, 1982.

  Marrer-Tising offers discussion of the popularity of Hesse's novels among American youth during the 1960s and 1970s. Marrer-Tising explores thematic elements of Hesse's fiction which addressed ideas and concerns of the youth counterculture during this era of U.S. history.

• Michels, Volker, ed., Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975.

  Michels provides photographs and other visual materials in conjunction with biographical discussion of Hesse's life and career.

• Moyer, Laurence, Victory Must Be Ours: Germany in the Great War, 1914 – 1918, Hippocrene Books, 1995.

  Moyer provides a history of Germany during World War I.

• Richards, David G., The Hero's Quest for the Self: An Archetypal Approach to Hesse's "Demian" and Other Novels, University Press of America, 1987.

  Richards discusses Hesse's fiction in terms of its mythological elements.

• Serrano, Miguel, C. G. Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Record of Two Friendships, Daimon Verlag, 1997.

  Serrano offers discussion of the ongoing friendship between Hesse and the great psychoanalytic theorist Carl Jung.

• Tusken, Lewis W., Understanding Hermann Hesse: The Man, His Myth, His Metaphor, University of South Carolina Press, 1998.

  Tusken provides analysis of the works of Hesse in terms of recurring thematic, symbolic, and psychological elements.