![]() ![]() After straying too far in the fields one day on an errand gathering herbs, Goldmund comes across a beautiful Gypsy woman, who kisses him and invites him to make love. Goldmund looks up to Narcissus, and Narcissus has much fondness for him in return. ![]() Narcissus (German: "Narziss" or, before the German orthography reform of 1996, Narziß ), a gifted young teacher at the cloister school, quickly befriends Goldmund, as they are only a few years apart, and Goldmund is naturally bright. Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a young man, Goldmund ( pronounced ), who wanders aimlessly throughout Medieval Germany after leaving a Catholic monastery school in search of what could be described as "the meaning of life". At its publication, Narcissus and Goldmund was considered Hesse's literary triumph chronologically, it follows Steppenwolf. ![]() Narcissus and Goldmund ( German: Narziß und Goldmund also published as Death and the Lover) is a novel written by the German–Swiss author Hermann Hesse which was first published in 1930. ![]()
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