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Title: The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse, Hilda Rosner ISBN: 0374500363 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: September, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2
Rating: 5
Summary: One of Hesse's Best--A Must-Read
Comment: In many ways, this book serves as a humble yet profound companion to Siddhartha and the Glass Bead Game (whose dedication reads: "To the Journeyers to the East"). It is another of Hermann Hesse's beautiful tales of searching. The story is that of HH, a member of an apparently long-dissolved League, a League of travelers who traversed space and time to absorb the wisdom, culture, and secrets of the ages to find peace and unity. As HH tries to recount this story, he reaches a great obstacle: the unexplained disappearance of League servant. He cannot go on. The rest of the book shows how HH deals with this encumbrance, only to find out that the truth he has been searching for is simpler than he though, and it is right in front of him.
What insight Hesse had, to be able to see that endless searching can blind us to what we already know, to be able to express the often-neglected value of humility and faithful servitude. Hesse's feel for communal and individual values shines forth in this brilliantly simple story, all of 117 pages.
And so I invite you to read this short tale in the hope that you, too, will find what you are looking for.
Rating: 5
Summary: what a great book.
Comment: I first read this book on the bus to school yesterday morning. I read it again in chemistry. I read it again when I got home. I couldn't stop. Somehow, Hesse struck a chord in me and I just couldn't stop reading this mesemerizing book. I was simply, completely stunned. I watched as this man remembered into his youth and his journey to the east, his goals, his apparent failure and ultimate victory. I identified with him every step of the way. I cried so much, but the kind of joyous tears like when you realize you're not quite alone in the world. Journey to the East made me unimaginably tired. I wanted to just curl up and dream a million dreams in Hesse's simple, descriptive prose.
Rating: 4
Summary: A mystical journey
Comment: "The Journey to the East," by Hermann Hesse, has been translated from German into English by Hilda Rosner. The book is narrated in the first person by a musician who, as a member of a secret society known as "the League," undertook a mystical journey. This book chronicles the narrator's quest to write the story of this pilgrimage.
"Journey" is a very "writerly" text; it's largely about the challenge of representing life experience as a written document. The book also deals with writing as both catharsis and as a burden, and with the larger issue of finding meaning in one's life. The book has touches of fantasy and offers intriguing glimpses at the inner workings of a secret society.
Hesse's prose, as translated by Rosner, has an elegant simplicity and subtle power. Recommended as companion texts: "The Guys," by Anne Nelson (also about the catharsis and burden of writing); and "The Sun at Night," by Roger Williamson (also deals with a secret mystical society).
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Title: Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse, Ursule Molinaro ISBN: 0553275860 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1984 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, Joseph Mileck ISBN: 0805012478 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: June, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, Hilda Rosner ISBN: 0553208845 Publisher: Bantam Classics Pub. Date: 01 January, 1982 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Demian by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 0060931914 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 0312278497 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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