Narziss and Goldmund (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Hesse, Hermann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140032606 ISBN 13: 9780140032604

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1973

Synopsis

300p grey paperback with illustrated card cover, minor traces of use, pages clean

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Review:

A novel that dramatises Nietzsche's conception of the Apollonian and the Dionysian. At the medieval monastery of Mariabronn, the restless Goldmund realises he isn't cut out for a cloistered life under the tutelage of his friend and mentor, the ascetic Narziss, and so begins a series of travels that see him work his way through most of the seven deadly sins before finding a psychic resolution of sorts in an apprenticeship to a master sculptor. Only by feeding his appetite for worldly experience does Goldmund finally find the courage to face death. --The Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read

His greatest novel --New York Times

One of his masterpieces . . . without doubt a great novel --Observer

About the Author:

Counted among the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, HERMANN HESSE was born in 1877. Rebelling against a stern monastic education, he worked as a locksmith and a bookseller before embarking on a 65-year writing career. Having travelled as far as India, he settled in Switzerland in 1911 in opposition to German militarism. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1946, he died in 1963 aged eighty-five.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0140032606
• ISBN 13: 9780140032604
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304