Narcissus and Goldmund
- 322
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Editor’s note Hesse published it in 1930: the friendship between Narziss, a scholarly monk who stays in the cloister of Mariabronn, and his pupil Goldmund, who leaves to wander medieval Germany as a lover and a sculptor. It sets thought against the senses, as Siddhartha and Steppenwolf do in their own ways, and was among Hesse’s most widely read books in his lifetime. Stefan Ruzowitzky filmed it in 2020.
About the book
Narcissus and Goldmund, also published in English as Death and the Lover, is a novel written by the German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse. Published in 1930, at the time of publication Narcissus and Goldmund was considered Hesse's literary triumph; chronologically, it follows Steppenwolf.