![]() ![]() He is determined to become a monk as a way of atoning for his father’s insistence that his mother was guilty of unspecified sins. ![]() The novel’s main character is the beautiful Goldmund, who begins the narrative as a novice at a monastery in the German countryside during the Middle Ages. The novel’s two main characters exemplify Nietzsche’s theory of the split between the Apollonian versus Dionysian tendencies – the idea that we are torn to either be creatures of pure reason and intellect or be ruled by the need for physical pleasure and earthy pursuits. Hesse, who would eventually go on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, explores the philosophical theme of man’s duality through an allegorical fairy tale that is set in a vaguely medieval landscape. The German writer Hermann Hesse published his novel Narcissus and Goldmund in 1930 to tremendous critical acclaim. ![]()
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