"Demian", originally published under the pseudonym of Emil Sinclair, buy with "Under the wheels" the insightful analysis of the mechanisms of repression and control that young people in a bourgeois society are subjected to during their formative stage, and it forces them to undertake a hard struggle to preserve their sensitivity, their own personality, and thus be able to freely undertake the search for their destiny in the adult world.
Hermann Hesse, one of the great German classics, has the mysterious power to connect as well as with the adult letor as with the adolescent readers.