Narcissus and Goldmund
by Hermann Hesse
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
Two contrasting friends pursue knowledge and experience through lives that repeatedly test their deepest commitments. Narcissus finds purpose in intellectual and spiritual discipline, while Goldmund is drawn toward travel, sensual experience, and art. Their friendship survives the different paths these desires create. Hesse explores contrasting ways of understanding life, allowing devotion, beauty, loss, and wandering to illuminate rather than simply defeat one another.
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Narcissus and Goldmund
Narcissus finds purpose in intellectual and spiritual discipline, while Goldmund is drawn toward travel, sensual experience, and art. Their friendship survives the different paths these desires create. Hesse explores contrasting ways of understanding life, allowing devotion, beauty, loss, and wandering to illuminate rather than simply defeat one another.
Why read it?
Two contrasting friends pursue knowledge and experience through lives that repeatedly test their deepest commitments. Explore Friendship, Art and Contrasting Vocation in this book.
Edition details
- Author / creators: Hermann Hesse
- Publisher: Bantam
- Language: English
- Format: Mass Market Paperback
- Pages: 320
- Edition publication year: 1984
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Book Details
- Author
- Hermann Hesse
- Format
- Mass Market Paperback
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 320
- Publication year
- 1984
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