I Am Goldmund: My Spiritual Odyssey With Narcissus

THIS REMARKABLE MEMOIR RECOUNTS THE AUTHOR’S SPIRITUAL ODYSSEY

with one of those exceptional people, a modern man, a Trappist monk. The story of their friendship is even more incredible because in 1930 Nobel Prize winning author, Hermann Hesse, wrote his famous novel about just such a fascinating friendship between two medieval men—Narcissus and Goldmund.

It is an amazing mystery that Hesse understood the depth and width of Narcissus and Goldmund’s friendship half a century before the author embarked on the selfsame voyage of friendship and love when, at the age of twenty, he entered a Trappist monastery in California where he met his own Narcissus and discovered an identical passion and understanding created from archetypical forces brought together in one place by unseen, powerful forces of the cosmos embodied in these two human beings.

“Let me introduce myself. I am Goldmund. This is my story.”