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Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely to scholarly and spiritual pursuits. One of his students is the sensual, restless Goldmund, who is immediately drawn to his teacherb2ss fierce intellect and sense of discipline. When Narcissus persuades the young student that he is not meant for a life of self-denial, Goldmund sets off in pursuit of aesthetic and physical pleasures, a path that leads him to a final, unexpected reunion with Narcissus.
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Teacher-student relationships, Fiction, Romance, German fiction, Literatura alemã, Translations from German, English fiction, Translations into English, Fiction, general, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, general, Germany, fiction, Middle Ages, Moyen Âge, Romans, nouvelles, Annäherung, Freundschaft, Geistlicher, Gotteserkenntnis, Kunst, Künstler, Landstreicher, Lebensideal, Mutter, Philosophische Theologie, Suche, Vollkommenheit, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Places
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Narcissus and Goldmund
February 1, 1984, Bantam
Mass Market Paperback
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0553244132 9780553244137
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Translation of: Narziss und Goldmund.
Originally published: Saigon : Ca Dao, 1969.
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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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