Hermann Hesse
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| Original Title: | Die Morgenlandfahrt |
| ISBN: | 0312421680 (ISBN13: 9780312421687) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | H.H., Leo Valdez |
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In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse's Journey to the East tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an expedition with the League, a secret society whose members include Paul Klee, Mozart, and Albertus Magnus. The participants traverse both space and time, encountering Noah's Ark in Zurich and Don Quixote at Bremgarten. The pilgrims' ultimate destination is the East, the "Home of the Light," where they expect to find spiritual renewal. Yet the harmony that ruled at the outset of the trip soon degenerates into an opening conflict. Each traveler finds the rest of the group intolerable and heads off in his own direction, with H.H. bitterly blaming the others for the failure of the journey. It is only long after the trip, while poring over records in the League archives, that H.H. discovers his own role in the dissolution of the group, and the ominous significance of the journey itself.Specify About Books The Journey to the East
| Title | : | The Journey to the East |
| Author | : | Hermann Hesse |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 128 pages |
| Published | : | February 1st 2003 by Picador (first published 1932) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Philosophy. Literature. European Literature. German Literature. Novels |
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"Poet of the Interior Journey"There was a time in my 20s when I was obsessed with Hermann Hesse. I was a Hesse Obsessor. After all, he was regarded highly enough as an author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.Something now lures me back to the novels I read then, "Siddhartha" and "Steppenwolf". However, I thought I would try this one as a "wedgie" or stopgap between more ambitious projects.In truth, this is more a novella than a novel.Even burdened by a 30 page introduction by DrI get this book: the meaning is crystal clear. But oddly, I'm not sure I would have understood it had I not just finished Houellebecq's "Submission" this morning. Even though these two books are vastly different in plot and characters and time and location, the ultimate theme of both is, to me, surrender can be an option, and might be the best/only option in certain cases. If you've read neither, I highly recommend you read both in succession.
Why is Hesse's concept of enlightenment indistinguishable from mental illness? First, in The Glass Bead Game, we get the depiction of a 'secular saint', and the signs of his enlightenment are that he has stopped all his creative work, often sits lost in thought, making no sign he understands anyone speaking to him, and when he does respond, it is with a brief non-sequitur. He otherwise wanders the gardens day and night with a bland smile frozen to his face. Perhaps it's only me who looks at
It started slow and was more dream like confusing but then it suddenly grew interesting and culminating in a great climax.
I enjoyed the simple ease of this novel.
Hermann Hesse writes as though his words are god's perspective, but I don't believe in god... And, for the most part, I think god is boring. Unlike Siddhartha, a book which everybody loves because they think they will look dumb if they don't, Journey to the East is a book that doesn't claim to have all the answers. I feel this quote from within its text describes it best."The clearest relationships were distorted, the most obvious were forgotten, the trivial and unimportant pushed into the
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