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Amazon.co.uk Review In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Some say he's a sage. He was once a wandering shramana and, briefly, like thousands of others, he followed Gautama the Buddha, enraptured by his sermons. But this man, Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. Born the son of a Brahman, Siddhartha was blessed in appearance, intelligence, and charisma. In order to find meaning in life, he discarded his promising future for the life of a wandering ascetic. Still, true happiness evaded him. Then a life of pleasure and titillation merely eroded away his spiritual gains until he was just like all the other "child people," dragged around by his desires. Like Hesse's other creations of struggling young men, Siddhartha has a good dose of European angst and stubborn individualism. His final epiphany challenges both the Buddhist and the Hindu ideals of enlightenment. Neither a practitioner nor a devotee, neither meditating nor reciting, Siddhartha comes to blend in with the world, resonating with the rhythms of nature, bending the reader's ear down to hear answers from the river. --Brian Bruya
Synopsis Steppenwolf is the profoundly memorable and affecting story of Harry Heller which embodies one of Hesses most personally felt themes the wrenching conflict between the needs of the flesh and of the spirit. The title of this novel refers to an ultra-aesthetic game played by scholars in the kingdom of Castalia around the year 2400. The game involves all branches of knowledge and spiritual values, especially those of the East. |
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Books by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha,
Steppenwolf
Gertrude
The Glass Bead Game
Klingsor's Last Summer
Narcissus and Goldmund
Peter Camenzind
The Journey to the East
Narziss and Goldmund
Hours in the Garden
The Prodigy
Beneath the Wheel
Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
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