The Journey to the East
A violinist called H.H. sets down what he can still remember of a pilgrimage made by a secret League whose route crossed centuries and fictions as freely as it crossed countries. The company's servant Leo vanishes in a gorge with the baggage, the expedition breaks up, and years afterwards the narrator sets out to find him and to account for the failure. Hesse described it as a preliminary study for the long novel he was already at work on, and its roll of pilgrims quietly gathers up characters from his own earlier books.
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- alludes to ↑ Steppenwolf
- ↓ The Glass Bead Game
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