ISBN Narcissus and Goldmund book General novel English 320 pages

'One of his masterpieces . . . without doubt a great novel'Guardian
One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels,Narcissus and Goldmundis 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 spiritual denial.
An superb feat of imagination,Narcissus and Goldmundcan only be compared to such films set in medieval Europe as Bergman'sThe Seventh Sealand Tarkovsky'sAndrei Rublev. It is a gripping, profound reading experience - as startling, in its different way, as Hesse'sSiddharthaandSteppenwolf.