![]() ![]() Of course dissatisfied young people wanted to read this book.ĭigression – this is James Laughlin in The Way It Wasn’t (2006): The reason for the Hesse boom in the 1960s was quickly obvious. So that’s it for the monastery! Goldmund becomes a wanderer, a tramp, really a kind of hippie. Goldmund is a student in a monastery who discovers that he is irresistible to women. Goldmund is another in that line, even if he never leaves German-speaking territory. I had met that pilgrim, many times, in German literature. The first sentence describes a chestnut tree “brought back generations earlier by a pilgrim returning from Rome” (Ch. Leila Vennewitz) that deliberately reached back to the 19th century German-language novella. After the inventiveness of Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) and the first big chunk of The Man Without Qualities (1930), it was a surprise to read such an old-fashioned but contemporary book as Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund (1930, tr. ![]()
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