num_pages: 312
description: One of Hermann Hesse’s greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a monastery and goes on the road, tangled in the extremes of life in a world dominated by sin, plague and war, the other staying in the monastery and struggling, with equal difficulty, to lead a life of spiritual denial.
language: German
title: Narziß und Goldmund
titlecomplete: Narziß und Goldmund (Gesammelte Werke in Einzelausgaben)
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Philosophy, German Literature, Germany, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 59940
places: Mariabronn
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Schlegel-Tieck Prize
category: Leila Vennewitz
publisher: Suhrkamp