Hermann Hesse: Liu lang zhe zhi ge (Chinese language, 2013, Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si)
287 pages
Chinese language
Published Nov. 8, 2013 by Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si.
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.
