Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse

Narcissus and Goldmund

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Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2017
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-198461-2 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
'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 spiritual denial.

An superb feat of imagination, Narcissus and Goldmund can only be compared to such films set in medieval Europe as Bergman's The Seventh Seal and Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev. It is a gripping, profound reading experience - as startling, in its different way, as Hesse's Siddhartha and Steppenwolf.

Hermann Hesse was born in Calw, Germany, in 1877. After a short period at a seminary he moved to Switzerland to work as a bookseller. During the First World War he worked for the Red Cross. His later novels - most importantly Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1927), Narcissus und Goldmund (1930) and The Glass Bead Game (1943) - and his poems and critical essays established him as one of the towering literary figures of the German-speaking world. He won many literary awards including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. Hermann Hesse died in 1962.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Penguin Modern Classics
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 128 x 198 mm
Gewicht 237 g
Themenwelt Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
ISBN-10 0-14-198461-9 / 0141984619
ISBN-13 978-0-14-198461-2 / 9780141984612
Zustand Neuware
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