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Journey To The East, The (Peter Owen Modern Classic) Book

The success of his first book, Siddhartha, ensured the publication of six further books by Hesse of which this one, first appearing in 1956, is regarded today as one of his best The narrator of this allegorical tale travels through time and space in a search of ultimate truth. This pilgrimage to the East covers both real and imagined lands and takes place not only in our own time but also in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Fellow travelers are also both real and fictitious and include Plato, Pythagoras, Don Quixote, Tristram Shandy, and Baudelaire. Like Siddartha, Journey to the East is a timeless novel of broad appeal, particularly among younger readers, stemming from an affinity with the lasting effects of the author's own youthful rebellion against the strictures of a classical education and his pacifist instincts, combined with an easy lyricism and a well-composed symmetry of style.Read More

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    Herman Hesse's legendary allegorical novel The Journey to the East is purportedly the history of a journey undertaken by a secretive 'League'. Written by one H.H., the group's storyteller and choirmaster, an old and weak man who has never recovered from the failure of the journey and the disintegration of the League. As H.H. struggles to string together his fractured memory of the expedition he reveals the existence of a fantastical, alluring and deeply intimate world in which a journey can cross not only the boundaries of time and space but even those of fact and fiction, in which one's travelling companion might just as easily be Don Quixote as Paul Klee. It is towards the end of this beguiling novel, however, that Hesse brings his greatest moral and philosophical powers to bear as he examines themes such as faith, cowardice and the relationship between an artist and their creation. Close in conception to The Glass Bead Game, The Journey to the East is a succinct example of the Nobel Prize winner's universal appeal.

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    Describes the history of a journey undertaken by a secretive League. This novel reveals the existence of a fantastical, alluring and deeply intimate world in which a...

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    Hermann Hesse, Hilda R. Rosner (Trans)

  • 0720613051
  • 9780720613056
  • Hermann Hesse
  • 7 August 2007
  • Peter Owen
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 112
  • 8th Revised edition
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