Description
Journey to the East
Hermann Hesse
Journey to the East is written from the point of view of a man who becomes a member of “The League”, a timeless religious sect whose members include famous fictional and real characters, such as Plato, Mozart, Pythagoras, Paul Klee, Don Quixote, Puss in Boots, Tristram Shandy, Baudelaire, Goldmund, the artist Klingsor (from Hesse’s Klingsor’s Last Summer), and the ferryman Vasudeva. A branch of the group goes on a pilgrimage to “the East” in search of the “ultimate Truth”. The narrator speaks of traveling through both time and space, across geography imaginary and real.
Although at first fun and enlightening, the Journey runs into a crisis in a deep mountain gorge called Morbio Inferiore when Leo, apparently a simple servant, disappears, causing the group to plummet into anxiety and argument. Leo is described as happy, pleasant, handsome, beloved by everyone, having a rapport with animals – to a discerning reader, he seems a great deal more than a simple servant, but nobody in the pilgrimage, including the narrator, seems to realise this.
ISBN: 978-9939-76-118-3
Pages: 216
Cover: Hard
Format: 11×16.5
Published by “Antares“, 2017