TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hesse,Hermann
AU  - Molinaro,Ursule
TI  - Narcissus and Goldmund
SN  - 0553275860
PY  - 1971///, c1968
CY  - New York
PB  - Bantam Books
KW  - Teacher-student relationships
KW  - Germany
KW  - Fiction
N1  - Translated from the German, Narziss und Goldmund
N2  - 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
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