Narcisse et Goldmund

Nothing can stop Goldmund's wandering, no woman, not even the misery, the plague or the death he encounters along the way.

Thirsting for pleasure, hungry for feminine beauty, he tirelessly takes up this road again and again, where every encounter tests the most beautiful and the darkest sides of humanity. Within this candid and generous spirit breaks through a revolt born of injustice, of the cruelty of men, where only art and creation lighten the weight of this fallen humanity that bears down on him.

And yet, giving up the fullness of existence, his unfailing attachment to freedom, in order to fulfil his destiny as a creator, is a dilemma Goldmund refuses to settle. The one constant: Narcissus, his guardian angel, who, through his disinterested love, had led him onto the paths of the heart.

Narcissus and Goldmund, more than an initiatory tale, is an ode to fleeting life through the quest for beauty and for “the eternal Eve”: the mother.

Hermann Hesse, Nobel Prize in Literature, here signs, with a pen as smooth as stone, a masterpiece of pure emotion. (Lenaïc Gravis and Jocelyn Blériot)