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Siddhartha

Siddhartha

Hesse, Hermann
Rosner, Hilda

Paperback

Series: New Directions Paperback

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $10.95

ISBN10: 081120068X
ISBN13: 9780811200684
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Jan 17 1957
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

Here the spirituality of the East and the West have met in a novel that enfigures deep human wisdom with a rich and colorful imagination.

Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, it is the story of a soul's long quest in search of he ultimate answer to the enigma of man's role on this earth. As a youth, the young Indian Siddhartha meets the Buddha but cannot be content with a disciple's role: he must work out his own destiny and solve his own doubt--a tortuous road that carries him through the sensuality of a love affair with the beautiful courtesan Kamala, the temptation of success and riches, the heartache of struggle with his own son, to final renunciation and self-knowledge.

The name Siddhartha is one often given to the Buddha himself--perhaps a clue to Hesse's aims in contrasting the traditional legendary figure with his own conception, as a European (Hesse was Swiss), of a spiritual explorer.

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