The Journey To The East

“That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier.”

“Once in their youth the light shone for them; they saw the light and followed the star, but then came reason and the mockery of the world; then came faint-heartedness and apparent failure; then came weariness and disillusionment, and so they lost their way again, they became blind again.”

Well, this is another gem by Hermann Hesse. The story revolves around the narrator joining a cult which is on a journey to the east. The entire novel is metaphorical in nature with profound themes running in the background. It follows the narrator through the entire journey with different interesting characters involved. I have always been a fan a Hesse's style of wrting and this book isn't an exception. Surely worth reading!