Demian. Knulp

The novel "Demian" is a deeply personal, subjectively colored confession of the hero. It expresses the hopes of a part of the Western European intelligentsia, which has lost faith in the "herd" ideals of the previous era and has embarked on a painfully difficult, but inevitable "path inward", the path of asserting its own identity.

Knulp is a vagabond by conviction. With his whole life, and even with his death, he demonstrates the advantages of a traveler who renounces a narrow settled life in the name of individual freedom. His soul is open to nature, beauty, he values ​​in people not wealth or social status, but spiritual qualities.