Herman Hesse: Siddkhartkha (Russian language, 2010, Izd-vo AST, Astrelʹ, VKT)
189 pages
Russian language
Published Nov. 8, 2010 by Izd-vo AST, Astrelʹ, VKT.
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.
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.
