Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse #joyce the debut in a body

the debut in a body of work that would inspire Peter Straub to hail Aickman as 'this century's most profound writer of what we call horror stories

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SHORTLISTED for the Sainsbury's Book Award and numerous regional awards

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Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse #joyce the debut in a body'One of his masterpieces . . . without doubt a great novel' Guardian One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a monastery and goes on the road, tangled in the extremes of life in a world dominated by sin, plague and war, the other staying in the monastery and struggling, with equal difficulty, to lead a life of