The Journey to the East

Synopsis

2011 reprint of 1957 english translation. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with optical recognition software. "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, tristram shandy, baudelaire, and the ferryman vasudeva, a character from one of hesse's earlier works, siddhartha. A branch of the group goes on a pilgrimage to "the east" in search of the "ultimate truth".