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Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse

Description: ISBN 0720612918 / Author: Hermann Hesse / Genre: Fiction / This book comes with a new foreword by Graham Coxon. Narcissus is a teacher at Mariabronn, a monastery in medieval Germany, and Goldmund is his favourite pupil. While Narcissus remains detached from the world in prayer ... more

Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse ... 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.

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