87 pages
English language
Published June 8, 2008 by Norkill Press.
4 stars
(7 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.
Subjects
- Buddhism
- Fiction
- Buddhist philosophy
- Bouddhisme
- Romans, nouvelles
- Philosophie bouddhique
Places
- India