Hermann Hesse is interesting as a person. discovers his own role in the dissolution of the group, and the ominous significance of the journey itself. It is only long after the trip, while poring over records in the League archives, that H.H. bitterly blaming the others for the failure of the journey. Each traveler finds the rest of the group intolerable and heads off in his own direction, with H.H. Yet the harmony that ruled at the outset of the trip soon degenerates into open conflict. The pilgrims' ultimate destination is the East, the "Home of the Light," where they expect to find spiritual renewal. The participants traverse both space and time, encountering Noah's Ark in Zurich and Don Quixote at Bremgarten. 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. In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse's Journey to the East tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. complex, subtle, allusive." - New York Times Book Review
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