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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 German novelist and cultural writer whose work drew on myth, history, and ideas of loyalty, he published fiction in the early 20th century and left behind a small but distinctive body of books.
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