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Summary: Close to perfection!
Review: This book changed my life! I read it three months ago and I still think about it almost everyday. N&G is one of the most perfect dualities I know. Shows the double side of each of us. Must read and re-read!
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Summary: A Must ..... especially for those that feel confused & lost
Review: I read this novel when I was a senior in high school and it has been one of favorite pieces of lit ever since. N&G is the most candid story of true friendship and life that I have ever read. I have embraced the teachings of the novel in my own life, I know that this sounds a bit quirky but it is simply so wonderful. Hesse is a true artist and should be embraced by all of society
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Summary: Buy it
Review: Novels are not philosophy, and neither is this one. It does, however come close. Hesse strips his story of setting and of secondary characters in order to let the opposing ideas in the novel hash it out as purely as possible. If you can handle the crushing weight of German intellectualism along with the added self-consciousness of a Nobel Prize, you'll do fine with this book.Hesse finally bores himself midway through the book, though, so he introduces the Bubonic Plague to relieve some of the Joycean tedium that necessarily permeates a book in which nothing much happens. The catharsis that follows is as powerful as anything you'll get from a printed page.
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Summary: One time Life Decision
Review: This book will help you determine what path you wish to take in the liberal and conservative aspect. It helped me a lot since I felt before a life direction crisis and this book helped me decide.
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Summary: Good book, but Siddhartha's better
Review: I went into this book with higher expectations than I should have, but it was a good read nevertheless. Siddhartha is better both in philosophy and theme, but this has another perspective on finding your path. The problem arises when a novelist tries to describe art and attempts to define it with pure subjectivism. Another problem is using a priest as a philosopher of reason and logic, which is contradictory to his belief in mysticism and faith.
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Summary: Completely engrossing and thoroughly enjoyable.
Review: The story of two person's search for happiness and their radically different paths. It is filled with imaginiative circumstances surcharged with passion and adventure. Narcissus and Goldmnund is total escape, completely engrossing, and thoroughly enjoyable.
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Summary: So good I keep reading it
Review: I keep reading this book once every two or three years to remind me of what life can be about. Be warned it's a very male book! Ideal for women who want to know how men think, but not for examining the female psyche.
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Summary: Hesse's best
Review: I think I survived being 19 because of N&G. For those of you who feel like a mess of opposites, dive in and find a world where those opposites belong together.
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Summary: As close to perfection as possible.
Review: If you haven't read this book. Do. It is one of the finest works I have ever had the pleasure to read. Period
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Summary: Narcissus and Goldmund, Logos and Eros
Review: The story of the friendship between the learned and ascetic Narcissus and the clever and wandering
Goldmund.
The contrast between nature and spirit, Eros and Logos, art and ascetism, and the
research of a point of contact : Science and Art walk on distinct paths, but they both aim for
Knowledge.
And this aim differentiates Narcissus and Goldmund from other people : "men were so dull, rough, and so unimaginably stupid and shortsighted [...] Nothing they saw, nothing they knew and observed, nothing talked to them.", while the two friends are enlightened, they aren't satisfied with shadows, they can get out of the cave.
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