Narcissus And Goldmund

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Peter Owen
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: Reprint

Description: 253 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Narcissus is a teacher at Mariabronn, a monastery in medieval Germany, and Goldmund his favourite pupil. While Narcissus remains detached from the world in prayer and meditation, Goldmund runs away from the monstery in pursuit of love. Thereafter he lives a picaresque wanderers life, his amatory adventures resulting in pain as well as ecstasy.His eventual reunion with Narcissus brings into focus the diversity between artist and thinker, Dionysian and Apollonian. With The Glass Bead Game, this is one of Hermann Hesses signature works, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. This edition features a foreword from the musician and artist Graham Coxon which was extracted in The Times on its original publication.

ISBN: 9780720612912