Summary
Hermann Hesse: The Nuremberg Journey
The title of the book suggests that it is a travelogue, but The Nuremberg Journey is more than just that; first of all, this prose work by Hermann Hesse is actually a distinctly autobiographical reading - one of the few written by the famous writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1946) - and which is extremely honest and, one would say, authentically confessional. One of the characteristics that is clearly felt when reading The Nuremberg Journey is self-irony, which some readers may misinterpret as self-criticism, which would be partially correct, because the writer speaks mercilessly about his flaws and about his lack of adaptation to the real life of the time in which he lives, which is also the reason for his decision to, as he says, live as a hermit, isolated in his inner world of literature and art.
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