Narziss und Goldmund
Erzählung
About this book
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.
Subjects
- annäherung
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- english fiction
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, historical, general
- freundschaft
- geistlicher
- german fiction
- germany, fiction
- gotteserkenntnis
- kunst
- künstler
- landstreicher
- lebensideal
- literatura alemã
- middle ages
- moyen âge
- mutter
- philosophische theologie
- political psychology
- romance
- romans, nouvelles
- spiritual formation
- suche
- teacher-student relationships
- translations from german
- translations into english
- vollkommenheit