Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth

A weird one. Demian is a very imperfect book. Some passages can be tedious or uninteresting; it is very much a product of its time, and often made me roll my eyes. But I cannot deny that there is a slumbering power within these pages - it's a book I'll often think about in my own struggle to be born, to come home.

on a less serious note, Demian is literally just Griffith from Berserk (pre-Eclipse), and Hesse is just the German Murakami(or, more appropriately, Murakami the Japanese Hesse).