122 pages
English language
Published April 9, 1957 by New Directions.
4 stars
(12 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