ode to freedom

"Narcissus and Goldmund" of Hermann Hesse. What have I read this novel before?
A fabulous novel, the allegorical philosophical tale style, powerful, reaching peaks in the last three chapters. Two figures all he has is more common there, each representing an archetype, with its attendant complexity and contradiction. This illustrates the inherent dualism in all of us, complementarity between animal nature and the spiritual nature that inspire us.
"Man, suspect composed of spirit and matter. "
Desire for freedom and the spiritual aspiration; opposition between spirit and flesh, between the contemplative and active life. Goldmund sculptor goes to Narcissus eyes succeed somehow synthesis and a grandiose creation defeat in a sense the fleeting of our condition by reaching the beautiful. Narcisse find its fulfillment in the work of the mind and Goldmund in the work of art, "triumph of the fugitive life." Nietzsche's influence is unmistakable in this story and the role of art in the evolution of Goldmund.
"The source of all art and probably all thought is perhaps the fear of death. We fear it, we shudder in the presence of the instability of the things we see with sadness the flowers fade, the leaves fall each year ... "
Nothing will stop the Goldmund vagant in his wandering, hungry for freedom and insensitive to the honors, wealth and moral or physical comfort, in search of a meaning to life, walking towards himself without learning, but starting discovering himself to be attentive to its true nature. Neither the many women he conquers nor cold nor hunger nor pestilence nor robbers will have because of his will and the pages, this character will accompany you in your meditations and you'll love it because it looks like you. . At least I hope for you. Also the recurring theme of the quest for Mother he has not known or little developed through all female conquests Goldmund.
A wonderful style, rich, lyrical and poetic precise where subtle emotion comes over the 400 pages of this initiation story that we want endless and whose long trajectory of divergent protagonists eventually converge in three final chapters of anthology.