Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse #joyce just as fundamentalist interpretation has

just as fundamentalist interpretation has centered on the question of the appropriateness of reading it as literally true

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DuckworthISBN: 9780715655627Extent: 352 pages

SHORTLISTED for the Sainsbury's Book Award and numerous regional awards

With an Introduction by Biyi Bandele

Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse #joyce just as fundamentalist interpretation has'One of his masterpieces . . . without doubt a great novel' Guardian One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a monastery and goes on the road, tangled in the extremes of life in a world dominated by sin, plague and war, the other staying in the monastery and struggling, with equal difficulty, to lead a life of