Narziss Und Goldmund ✦ Safe

After leaving the monastery, he becomes a wanderer and a sculptor. He represents the "feminine conscious mind" and is driven by an eternal search for the "primordial mother". Major Themes

The novel’s primary structure is built on the antithetical relationship between its two title characters. Narziss und Goldmund

Apollonian ideals—reason, order, intellect, and spiritual discipline. After leaving the monastery, he becomes a wanderer

Narcissus and Goldmund (German: Narziss und Goldmund ), published in 1930, is a philosophical novel by Hermann Hesse that explores the fundamental dualities of human existence through the lifelong friendship of two contrasting men in medieval Germany. After leaving the monastery

He remains within the monastery of Mariabronn, eventually becoming its Abbot. He views life through logic and the "masculine conscious mind". Goldmund (The Artist):