Narcissus and Goldmund
By: Hermann Hesse ; translated by Ursule Molinaro.
Contributors: Molinaro, Ursule.
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780553275865
Subjects: Teacher-student relationships -- Germany -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Narziss und Goldmund.
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.