![]() ![]() Hans misses the coach out of town and decides to stay another day at the inn run by Herr Zeit (Mister Time) - then another day, and another, etc. Hans is a wanderer himself, never staying anywhere long, never feeling nostalgia for “he preferred to think about his next journey.”īut Wandernburg is perhaps harder to leave than it is to enter. But he does arrive, planning to stay only a night or two. Though he can see it out the window of his carriage for some time, his driver cannot tell him when (or if) they’ll get there, Wandernburg being one of those strange cities that moves around on the map somewhere between Saxony and Prussia. Traveler of the Century, which probably takes place sometime in the late 1820s, begins as Hans approaches the city of Wandernburg. Review copy courtesy of Farrar Straus Giroux. ![]()
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