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About This Novel

"The last knight of German Romanticism" and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Hesse's new 10-volume anthology, translated by famous writers, includes novels, short and medium-length works, poetry, prose, fairy tales and paintings, comprehensively displaying Hesse's creative career. The novel "Natchez and Goldmund" is Hesse's masterpiece published in 1930. It describes the life experiences of a pair of friends who represent rational asceticism and erotic sensual hedonism. The young novice monk Narcissus in the monastery is extremely talented and is deeply loved by Dean Daniel. The new student Goldmund was obsessed with secular life. Although they became friends, Goldmund ignored Narcissus' rational preaching and secretly went to the village to have a tryst with the girl. Then he escaped from the monastery and wandered around, experiencing joy and hardship. His wanderings made him gradually mature, but he was later sentenced to death for falling in love with the governor's mistress. Narcissus, who became the abbot of the monastery, rescued him from prison and let him specialize in sculpture. Goldmund went out to march again, and fell seriously ill on the way. Narcissus expressed his friendship to him before his death, making him die happily. The novel expresses the conflict between two different human natures and achieves harmonious unity in the process of exploring ideals; some critics call it "a beautiful Faust variation that combines knowledge and love."

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