The Journey to the East

hermann hesse hilda rosner

Hermann Hesse’s novels are great, mythic structures dealing with the ultimate questions of life. Hesse’s work is a continuing dialogue with himself. The Journey to the East is the story of a youthful pilgrimage that seemingly failed. As the book opens, the narrator is engaged in writing the chronicle of this remembered adventure—the central experience of his youth. As he becomes immersed in retelling the chronicle, the writer realizes that only he has failed, that the youthful pilgrimage continues in a shining and mysterious way.

Genres fictionclassicsphilosophyliteraturegerman literaturenovelsspiritualitygermanynobel prizereligion

128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1,1932

This edition

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published: March 1, 1972 by Bantam Books / Farrar, Straus \u0026 Giroux
ISBN: 9780553073621
ASIN: 0553073621
Language: English

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About the author

hermann hesse

Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.

Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game, which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society.

In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world; worldwide fame only came later. Young Germans desiring a different and more "natural" way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind, first great novel of Hesse.

Throughout Germany, people named many schools. In 1964, people founded the Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis, awarded biennially, alternately to a German-language literary journal or to the translator of work of Hesse to a foreign language. The city of Karlsruhe, Germany, also associates a Hermann Hesse prize.