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Book · 1930 · Fiction

Narcissus and Goldmund

Hermann Hesse
Picador (Macmillan) · 320 pages
★ 6.3 editorial score

Two friends split the world between them: Narcissus stays in the monastery with logic and God, and Goldmund walks out into women, wandering, and the Black Death, then carves it all in wood.

Genre
Philosophical novelHistorical fictionComing of age
Medium
Novel
Subject
FriendshipArtReligionVocation
Setting
Germany
Time
1930Depicts Middle Ages

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