Narcissus and Goldmund

His greatest novel * New York Times *
The stories he tells keep faith with the powerful emotions of adolescence… As long as people struggle with the need to be themselves, and the difficulty of doing so, he will be a living presence * New Yorker *
A poetic novel unique in its fascination * Thomas Mann *
One of his masterpieces… a great novel * Observer *
The quintessential book of adolescence… This extremely beautiful novel has a ripeness and wisdom all too rare in modern literature * Telegraph *
There’s a certain time in life when one needs to read Hesse * Jenny Erpenbeck *
Moving and beautiful… has a fairytale quality * Evening Standard *

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was born in Württemberg, Germany. He resented his pious and repressive upbringing, and was determined to be ‘a writer or nothing else’. His writing was greatly influenced by his travels to Asia and his friendship with psychoanalyst Carl Jung. In 1946 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Several of his novels are published by Pushkin Press Classics, including The Journey from the East, Demian and Siddhartha.

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