172 pages
German language
Published Aug. 7, 1950 by Suhrkamp Verlag.
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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
- Buddha and Buddhism