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...DEMIAN by Hermann Hesse, translated by Roloff and Lebeck. 171 pages. Harper...
World War I changed all that. Hesse protested publicly against the Kaiser's policies, suffered an emotional breakdown, was cured by a pupil of Switzerland's Carl Jung, and in 1919 published Demian, the story of a young man's struggle for identity that electrified a generation looking for a way out of moral and political disaster...
...editor of Youth Pravda (news-organ of the Russian organization corresponding to Boy Scouts) found himself in a tight fix. His hero-worshipping young readers worshipped Vladimir Mayakovsky who had now greatly sinned. It was as though Chief Scout Lord Baden-Powell should sin. But the official poet laureate, Demian Bedny, saved the situation, announced as it were ex cathedra that the poet had shot himself while suffering from "temporary insanity," had died in honor, a proper hero for boys under 14. No mention was made in Youth Pravda of the young actress, though, other Moscow papers said that...
...Demian Byedny, described as the "Russian Poet Laureate," has written a satire on Lloyd George...