Title:: [[The Journey to the East]] Authors:: [[Hermann Hesse]] Tags:: #fiction Read:: [[2024-11-03]] Instagram :: https://www.instagram.com/p/DB6YgF0OXLS/ ## Editions - Edition:: [[The Noonday Press]], 1994 - Original Copyright:: 1956 - Pages:: 118 ## Purchase * Bookshop.org:: https://bookshop.org/a/94437/9781774642085 ## Annotations Translated by Hilda Rosner I wonder if Italo Calvino read The Journey to the East? Kept thinking about Invisible Cities as the narrator described the places and people (real and fictional) encountered throughout. Admittedly, I prefer Calvino’s tighter embrace of magical realism to Hesse’s flirtation.