Siddhartha

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Hermann Hesse, Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha (Hardcover, 2005, North Books)

Hardcover

English language

Published Dec. 7, 2005 by North Books.

ISBN:
978-1-58287-856-0
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OCLC Number:
71438567

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4 stars (2 reviews)

Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom.

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Fourth read into Hesse and I can confidently say there’s a schema common to everything he writes. All I can do is marvel at the fact his reused ‘wander to find yourself’ bit has not once bored me. That being said, this is still no GBG or N&G.

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  • Fiction
  • Literature: Classics
  • Classics