Narcissus and Goldmund

A Novel

Paperback, 320 pages

English language

Published Feb. 1, 2003 by Picador.

ISBN:
978-0-312-42167-0
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First published in 1930, Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of two diametrically opposite men: one, an ascetic monk firm in his religious commitment, and the other, a romantic youth hungry for worldly experience. Hesse was a great writer in precisely the modern sense: complex, subtle, allusive: alive to the importance of play. Narcissus and Goldmund is his very best. What makes this short book so limitlessly vast is the body-and-soul-shaking debate that runs through it, which it has the honesty and courage not to resolve: between the flesh and spirit, art and scientific or religious speculation, action and contemplation.

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  • Fiction / Literary
  • Fiction
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  • Literature: Classics