Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

Hardcover, 104 pages

Published Dec. 29, 2010 by Lits.

ISBN:: 978-1-60942-162-5

(11 reviews)

Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom.

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Dee reviewed Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

3.5

4 stars

Fourth read into Hesse and I can confidently say there’s a schema common to everything he writes. All I can do is marvel at the fact his reused ‘wander to find yourself’ bit has not once bored me. That being said, this is still no GBG or N&G.