Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse finished Siddhartha in 1922, in a stone house above a Swiss village, four years after he began it and two years after he stopped. He had to live the second half before he could write it.A young Brahmin leaves his father's house and joins the wandering ascetics. He meets the Buddha and walks away — a teaching cannot carry the awakening that produced it. In the city he apprentices hims...