
The novel was inspired by Hesse’s own life and his relationships with his friends. Hermann Hesse wrote the novel while living in Switzerland, but it is set in medieval Germany. The book also touches on themes of loneliness, mortality, and the search for inner peace. It deals with the idea of balance between the rational and the emotional, and the importance of accepting both sides of ourselves. Hesse’s novel explores the themes of friendship, love, and the search for meaning in a chaotic world. Along the way, they must grapple with their own mortality, and eventually, learn to accept each other’s differences. Over the course of their journeys, the two men learn about themselves and the world, with Goldmund’s quest for love and Narziss’ search for inner peace. Goldmund soon leaves the monastery to explore the world, while Narziss remains to become a monk. Narziss and Goldmund meet as young men at a monastery school, where Narziss teaches Goldmund the ways of logic and reason while Goldmund introduces him to the beauty of the world around them. The novel is set in a monastery in medieval Germany and explores themes of friendship, love, and the search for meaning in a chaotic world. It tells the story of two men, Narziss and Goldmund, who go on a long and winding journey of self-discovery. The city of Karlsruhe, Germany, also associates a Hermann Hesse prize.Narziss and Goldmund is a novel written by German author Hermann Hesse in 1930. In 1964, people founded the Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis, awarded biennially, alternately to a German-language literary journal or to the translator of work of Hesse to a foreign language. Throughout Germany, people named many schools. Young Germans desiring a different and more "natural" way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind, first great novel of Hesse.
In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world worldwide fame only came later.
Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game, which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society. Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.