Hermann Hesse is known as a brilliant storyteller, a true intellectual and an observant psychologist whose unusual plots amaze from the first page. But in this collection, another Hesse appears before the reader - Hesse, who analyzes not the actions of fictional characters, but his own life. rest and heal. In Journey to Nuremberg, Hesse recalls his autumn trip from Locarno, reflecting along the way on the profession of an artist and his main occupation in the summer months - painting. And in The Journey, published for the first time in Russian, he also reveals himself as a poet: it was in these notes and poems that Hesse's transition from active to contemplative life was outlined.