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Narziss und Goldmund
First published 1930
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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.
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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.
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- Hermann Hesse
- First published
- 1930
- Edition
- Narcissus and Goldmund
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Language
- ENG
- ISBN-13
- 9780553244137