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This week, Deepak Chopra, medical expert, ayurvedic entrepreneur and New Age savant picks up another title: New Testament author. Chopra's book, Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment, speculates a story of the Messiah-to-be during what might be called his early Wanderjahr. And wander he does. We meet Jesus consulting with a guru on an icy mountaintop in what seems like Tibet. He gets caught up with armed Jewish zealots, dallies with the Essenes (who collected the Dead Sea Scrolls) and eventually achieves a oneness with God. Chopra spoke with TIME about his novel...
Thus ended a Wanderjahr in which Wolf fled through central Europe to the Soviet Union shortly before unification, then trekked backward because his continued sanctuary in Moscow seemed risky in the aftermath of the failed August coup. In Austria, his last stop before turning himself in, Wolf appeared to be teasing Bonn with impunity for three weeks. He applied for political asylum, counting on the international legal practice prohibiting extradition of individuals to countries where they are wanted for political crimes...
...Essayist's style-fine gray flannel occasionally flecked with hayseed-charmed New Yorker readers for decades. The Escapist successfully migrated from Manhattan to Maine, and lived to write about it. The Storyteller grew famous by turning the travels of a tweedy, 2-in.-tall mouse into a memorable Wanderjahr for children, loaded with longing and nostalgia...
This theme of serial selves, of second and third acts in American lives, also appears in Mark Helprin's The Schreuderspitze, in which a man leaves his family for what appears to be a Wanderjahr in Europe. He transforms himself into a mountain-climbing machine, conquers an Alp and heads home with what some readers may interpret as a jogger's expensive high...
Restless young "J." Laughlin left Harvard after his freshman year, took off for a Wanderjahr in Europe. There U.S. expatriate writers filled his ears with a doleful cry: Why was there no publisher in America willing to take a chance on avant-garde writing? Laughlin went back to Harvard in 1934 with ideas of becoming a publisher. He collected a big eclectic bundle of literary odds & ends (by such writers as Gertrude Stein, Kay Boyle, Jean Cocteau, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens) and in 1936, while still in college, published them in one volume as the first New Directions annual...