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Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel
by Hermann Hesse
from Picador
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 
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Beautiful, profound, important
This book has it all. The writing is beautiful, just reading it is soothing. Hesse discusses an important aspect of everyone's life - namely our wants, desires and strives vs. being bound by our surroundings and society. The author develops important insights for how to deal with this struggle using an illustrative example. This technique allows the reader to spend hours on this topic in a constructive manner, while enjoying a beautiful book.
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A psychological Jungian Bildungsroman disguised as a fairy tale
I read this book the first time when I was eighteen and a freshman in college. That was thirty eight years ago. I didn't think the book would hold up to a second reading in 2008 but I was wrong; it was better than I remembered it.
Maybe I think it is better now because I understand and appreciate Narcissus, who I then dismissed as a dud.
Additionally, in 1970, I read the book as a "road" novel and I saw Goldmund as a peripatetic hero--a medieval hippie. This time I understood the two characters... more info
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Hesse's Master Work
From a writer more commonly working in shorter fiction, or at depths that require intense concentration, this book is an masterpiece of extended prose that balances depth and lyricism, scenery and thought, secular and divine. The dualities compliment the exploration of the two lives - the golden voice and the self-regarding man. But only by the names are these polarized, they could be argued to be either. As you finally leave the book you may feel expelled from a world and time more wonderful than the one... more info
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There are not eonough stars in the galaxy to rate this book
I especially loved the portrayal of meidevil life and the search for the meaning of what it means to be an artist and what art is all about. How artist take a differrent path to perection and understanding. Unplug the gadgets and read this.
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