Author

Publication

1984-02-01 - Bantam

Language

English

Word Count

78,000 words, Guess

Page Count

312 pages

Physical Format

Mass Market Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100553275860
  • ISBN-139780553275865
  • Goodreads13520
  • LibraryThing9382
  • Open LibraryOL7824111M

Description

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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