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Siddhartha

Siddhartha

Hesse, Hermann

Paperback

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798997251406
Publisher: Monotrope
Published: Apr 23 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Hermann Hesse finished Siddhartha in 1922, in a stone house above a Swiss village, four years after he began it and two years after he stopped. He had to live the second half before he could write it.

A young Brahmin leaves his father's house and joins the wandering ascetics. He meets the Buddha and walks away - a teaching cannot carry the awakening that produced it. In the city he apprentices himself to the courtesan-teacher Kamala in the arts of love and to the merchant Kamaswami in the arts of money, loses a decade, and abandons everything at the river of an old ferryman who has nothing to teach but how to listen. By the end, what he has found cannot be handed down. It can only be sat with.

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