And while in the beginning of the novel it is him who feels inferior in comparison to his friend - the friar and theorist Narziss - striving for his love and recognition, it is the latter who - after many years - looks upon his own sheltered existence with inferiority and regret, and confesses his respect and love and for the other. In these words the character Narziss describes his companion Goldmund, the two protagonists in Hermann Hesse's 1930 novel Narziss und Goldmund. The young Goldmund, soon after having processed the differences between him and Narziss and having accepted the purposelessness of longing to resemble him, frees himself from his false ecclesiastic a mbitions in order to look life in the face, encounter love and pain, find meaning and ultimately himself. Why was this loving person, this person with those fine, rich senses, who could experience and love the scent of flowers, a morning sun, a horse, a bird's flight or music so deeply, why was he obsessed with becoming a spiritual person and an ascetic? »
«Everything that was alive and radiant about this young man spoke so clearly: he bore all the signs of a strong person, richly gifted in the senses and in the soul, perhaps an artist, but in any case a person of great love power, whose destiny and happiness consisted in being flammable and to be able to indulge.
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