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The story opens with a thirty‑year‑old wanderer who stumbles awake in a barren gorge, his body bruised and his mind ablaze with pain. The silence of the early dawn is broken only by a deep, resonant voice that seems to belong both to nature and to a higher power. As he struggles to understand the flood of memories that wash over him, the landscape becomes a mirror for his own fractured identity.
In the next moments he meets a lone monk with a red beard, a figure who speaks in riddles about fire, horses and divine service. Their brief exchange hints at a larger struggle between earthly suffering and a yearning for lasting purpose. The novel promises a lyrical exploration of faith, destiny, and the possibility of an immortality that is rooted in the human heart.
Language
de
Duration
~4 hours (233K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2020-12-26
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects
1890–1943
A prolific German novelist who was also trained as a doctor, he was widely read in the first half of the 20th century but is now remembered as much for his political ties as for his books. His career moved between literature, medicine, and cultural influence during the Nazi era.
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