SIDDHARTHA

SIDDHARTHA

by Hermann Hesse and James M. Brand
Publication Date: 19/01/2019

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SIDDHARTHA

by Hermann Hesse

Synopsis

A novel of spiritual genre originally written in German by Herman Hesse in a poetical style. This novel narrates the spiritual journey of a Brahmin from a gifted child to attaining self-discovery. Originally written in the year 1922 , this novel was translated and published in the United states in 1951 and influenced the readers of 1960s.

Siddhartha is a novel which narrates the spiritual journey of an Indian Brahmin who lived in the Buddha era. Accompanied by his friend Govinda, he quits personal possessions and become a part of Samanas. Though inspired by the teachings of Buddha, unlike his friend, he believes the spiritual illumination has to be sought by an individual and cannot be taught by anyone else.

Siddhartha meets Kamala and fall in love with her. Kamala accepts to marry him, only if he becomes wealthy. To marry Kamala, he becomes a business man and marries her and leads a luxurious lifestyle. At one point of time, he realizes and moves away from his family life. He goes back to the river and continues his previous life style and eventually in the deathbed.

His wife Kamala learns about him and goes to river to meet his husband. Unfortunately she is bitten by a snake and eventually dies.

File information (Digital) (934KB)

Books (1)

Biography (Yes)

Pag count (8.5x11) (107)

Word count (40,022)

ISBN:
1230003038437
1230003038437
Category:
Self-help & personal development
Publication Date:
19-01-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
ZREADS
Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse was born in Calw in 1877, a town in the north of the Black Forest. As a child he was constantly at odds with his religious upbringing and education.

His experiences of childhood, adolescence and the desire to break into the world as an artist would form the matter of his first three novels, Peter Camenzind, The Prodigy and Gertrude. Following an ever-present spiritual thirst, Hesse read widely on theosophy, Buddhism and the burgeoning field of psychoanalysis, even becoming a patient of Carl Jung.

This seeking is evident in some of his greatest novels, such as Demian, Steppenwolf, and Siddhartha. Little known outside of Germany at the time of his death in 1962 the arrival of the first English translation of Siddhartha in 1954 struck a chord with the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Soon after, Hesse became one of the most widely read and translated European authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.

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