Siddhartha

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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Translated by Hilda Rosner
This is the kind of book—rare in our arid age—which takes root in the heart and grows there for a lifetime. Here the spirituality of the East and the West have met in a növel that enfigures deep humán wisdom with a rich and colorful imagination.
Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, it is the story of a soul's long quest in search of the ultimate answer to the enigma of man's role on this earth. As a youth, the young Indián Siddhartha meets the Buddha but cannot be content with a disci-ple's 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 with the beautiful courtesan Kamala, the temptation of success and riehes, 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 Hesse's aims in contrasting the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Translated by Hilda Rosner
This is the kind of book—rare in our arid age—which takes root in the heart and grows there for a lifetime. Here the spirituality of the East and the West have met in a növel that enfigures deep humán wisdom with a rich and colorful imagination.
Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, it is the story of a soul's long quest in search of the ultimate answer to the enigma of man's role on this earth. As a youth, the young Indián Siddhartha meets the Buddha but cannot be content with a disci-ple's 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 with the beautiful courtesan Kamala, the temptation of success and riehes, 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 Hesse's aims in contrasting the traditional legendary figure with his own conception, as a European (Hesse was Swiss), of a spiritual explorer.
"The cool and strangely simple story makes a beautiful little book, classic in proportion and style; it should be read slowly and with savor, preferably during the lonely hours of the night."
The Nation.
A clothbound edition of Siddhartha, suitable for a gift or the per-manent library shelf, is available at $16.95.
Cover photograph by A. K. Coomaraswamy. Vissza