'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.
