Siddhartha

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse
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Publication Date: 25/04/2020

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Siddhartha had started to nurse discontent in himself, he had started


to feel that the love of his father and the love of his mother, and also


the love of his friend, Govinda, would not bring him joy for ever and


ever, would not nurse him, feed him, satisfy him. He had started to


suspect that his venerable father and his other teachers, that the wise


Brahmans had already revealed to him the most and best of their wisdom,


that they had already filled his expecting vessel with their richness,


and the vessel was not full, the spirit was not content, the soul was


not calm, the heart was not satisfied. The ablutions were good, but


they were water, they did not wash off the sin, they did not heal the


spirit's thirst, they did not relieve the fear in his heart. The


sacrifices and the invocation of the gods were excellent--but was that


all? Did the sacrifices give a happy fortune? And what about the gods?


Was it really Prajapati who had created the world? Was it not the

ISBN:
1230003848296
1230003848296
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
25-04-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Prel
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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