Let us be comforted with whatever ration of enlightenment we are allowed. He hardly knows anything about her and his relationship with his father is not really close. Goldmund falls for the first young lady to say no, loses her to the serpent of lust for her younger, prettier sister, and then travels far and wide. The picaresque nature of the novel is balanced by chapters of philosophical discussion, occurring, as with Siddartha, as the two men meet again late in life.Īlbeit the awful, terrifying front cover graphic chosen by the Italian editor think about the name “Hesse” wrote in the same style, way and colours of the notorious “Esso” logo on a grey background Published inthis is Herman Hesse’s brilliant story of two friends in medieval Germany.
Each avoids either absolutising the beliefs he has arrived at, or on the other hand failing to place confidence in the experience that has helped him reach the approach to life he has developed. Of those books, Narcissus and Goldmund struck me the most and stayed with me for over 40 years since the first reading. ‘Narziss and Goldmund’ is a moving, symbolic novel of friendship between a cerebral teacher who becomes a monk (Narziss) and a restless. Like Narcissus, Goldmund is very beautiful. Goldmund, a novice, enters the monastery. Hesse’s novel of two medieval men, one quietly content with his religion and monastic life, the other in fervent search of more worldly salvation.
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