Siddhartha

This allegorical novel set in sixth-century India around the time of the Buddha follows a young man on his search for enlightenment. Here the spirituality of the East and the West have met in a novel that enfigures deep human wisdom with a rich and colourful imagination.Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty it is the story of a soulless long quest in search of the ultimate answer to the enigma of mans role on this Earth. As a youth the young Indian Siddhartha meets the Buddha but cannot be content with a discipline 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 and riches the heartache of a 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 hesses aims in contrasting the traditional legendary figure with his own conception as a European (Hesse was Swiss) of a spiritual Explorer. Special features: iranscience.Net the book Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse is a short fairy tale version of. It shows how Siddhartha is struck by lust and greed and leaves his family for. Read full review.