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Edit page. Narcissus and Goldmund: Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. With Jannis Niewöhner, Sabin Tambrea, Henriette Confurius, Emilia Schüle. Goldmund is to study in the monastery Mariabronn. His father sent him there. There he meets a religious monk named Narcissus. He has subjected himself to a strict life and lives completely ascetically.
Books. Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel. Hermann Hesse. Macmillan, 2003 - Fiction - 320 pages. Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely to scholarly and spiritual pursuits.
Narcissus and Goldmund. First published 1930. The story is set in the Middle Ages. In the old monastery of Mariabronn lives the abbot Daniel, "who might be a saint, but he was not a scholarly man. His was the simplicity, which is indeed wisdom." In the same monastery, we find the novice Narcissus, the youngest teacher.
4.22. 63,418 ratings3,280 reviews. Narcissus and Goldmund tells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposite: Narcissus, an ascetic monk firm in his religious commitment, and Goldmund, a romantic youth hungry for knowledge and worldly experience. First published in 1930, Hesse's novel remains a moving and pointed ...
Director, Writer. Hermann Hesse. Novel. Robert Gold. Writer. In the dark middle ages young unruly Goldmund is sent to a monastery by his father to atone for the sins of his mother, who abandoned them. It is there that he meets Narcissus, a brilliant, scholarly novice, who is introverted and aloof. A unique and deep life-long friendship is born.
Apr 1, 2009 · Narcissus and Goldmund is a surrealistic work set in the Middle Ages.-- "The Oxford Companion to English Literature" Narcissus and Goldmund is [Hesse's] very best...What makes this short book so limitlessly vast is the body-and-soul-shaking debate that runs through it, which it has the honesty and courage not to resolve: between the flesh and spirit, art and scientific or religious speculation ...
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Within dreams it represents itself as a mother figure. The cloister and Narcissus being the persona/the self. And Goldmund and his journey being the anima. At the end Goldmund's influence on Narcissus before his passing, being the merging of the anima with the Self. An imporant part of individuation.
