Spirit and Eros Author: [Germany] Hermann Hesse Translator: Yi Haizhou Publisher: Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House

★“True great emotions transcend gender”

★ Works by German writer Hesse, whom Haruki Murakami highly recommends

★ A representative novel by Hesse, the Nobel Prize winner in Literature after Siddhartha and Steppenwolf

★After 27 years, the simplified Chinese world has a new translation, the German translator Yi Haizhou translated the original German version without deletions

Narziss and Goldmund is a representative novel by Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse, written after Demian, Siddhartha and Steppenwolf. The novel tells the life stories of two talented but very different young men, Narziss and Goldmund. Narziss, a young scholar at Mariabronn Monastery, is gifted and talented. He has always been strict with himself and has the ideal of becoming a theologian who advocates logic and rationality. Goldmund, a new student, originally wanted to become a monk according to his father's wishes, but accidentally discovered the joy of secular life. Although the two were attracted by each other's unique temperament, the difference in nature led them to take completely different paths. Goldmund traveled around the world as a teenager, tasted love and sensual pleasures, learned the art of carving, and survived plague and death. Many years later, Goldmund was thrown into prison for having an affair, but was saved by the old friend who had always lived in his soul before his execution. The two life histories were finally intertwined again...

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was a writer, poet and painter. He was born in Germany in 1877 and became a Swiss citizen in 1924. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. He is known as the last knight of the German Romantic School.