Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse(1922)
Novelc. 160 pages
“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
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by Hermann Hesse(1922)
“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
Hermann Hesse(1922)
A young Brahmin leaves home seeking enlightenment, meets the Buddha, becomes a merchant, a lover, a ferryman, and finally achieves what he was seeking by the river where he has spent decades listening. Hesse wrote it in 1922, between Demian and Steppenwolf, and it became the introduction to Eastern philosophy for generations of Western readers. The prose is simple, the structure episodic, the philosophy syncretic. Purists may object. Millions have found something they needed here.