num_pages: 253
description: Also published as Death and the Lover , this new edition features a foreword from the musician and artist Graham Coxon  Narcissus is a teacher at Mariabronn, a monastery in medieval Germany, and Goldmund his favorite pupil. While Narcissus remains detached from the world in prayer and meditation, Goldmund runs away from the monastery in pursuit of love. Thereafter he lives a picaresque wanderer’s life, his amatory adventures resulting in pain as well as ecstasy. His eventual reunion with Narcissus brings into focus the diversity between artist and thinker, Dionysian and Apollonian.
language: English
title: Narcissus and Goldmund
titlecomplete: Narcissus and Goldmund
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: Peter Owen Modern Classics