Narcissus and Goldmund - Brossura

Hesse, Hermann

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0720612918 ISBN 13: 9780720612912

Casa editrice: Peter Owen, 2006

Riassunto

Also published as Death and the Lover, this new edition features a foreword from the musician and artist Graham Coxon

 Narcissus is a teacher at Mariabronn, a monastery in medieval Germany, and Goldmund his favorite pupil. While Narcissus remains detached from the world in prayer and meditation, Goldmund runs away from the monastery in pursuit of love. Thereafter he lives a picaresque wanderer’s life, his amatory adventures resulting in pain as well as ecstasy. His eventual reunion with Narcissus brings into focus the diversity between artist and thinker, Dionysian and Apollonian.

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Recensione:

A novel that dramatises Nietzsche's conception of the Apollonian and the Dionysian. At the medieval monastery of Mariabronn, the restless Goldmund realises he isn't cut out for a cloistered life under the tutelage of his friend and mentor, the ascetic Narziss, and so begins a series of travels that see him work his way through most of the seven deadly sins before finding a psychic resolution of sorts in an apprenticeship to a master sculptor. Only by feeding his appetite for worldly experience does Goldmund finally find the courage to face death. --The Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read

His greatest novel --New York Times

One of his masterpieces . . . without doubt a great novel --Observer

L'autore:

Hermann Hesse (1877?1962) was a poet, novelist, and painter whose best-known works include Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, and The Glass Bead Game, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Peter Owen
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0720612918
• ISBN 13: 9780720612912
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256