Thus begins one of the truly exceptional stories in modern literature. A decision that makes Siddhartha’s father less than a happy camper.

He sets out, along with his life long friend to find life’s meaning. He knows deep inside that there is something missing and decides to leave his father and his future and seek enlightenment. The Brahmin are the uber revered caste comprised of poets, priests, teachers and scholars***.Īt the beginning of the story, despite having absorbed all of the teachings of his father and followed all of the religious rites and rituals of his caste, Siddhartha is not content. The book details the story of Siddhartha, the young and brilliant son of a Brahmin in ancient India. Beautifully written and a deeply personal story, Hesse has created the ultimate expression of the journey of self-discovery. My apologies if this review reeks of 'GUSHness.' However, it gave me that ONE-OF-A-KIND reading experience that doesn't come along often and so I think it is certainly worthy of the praise I shall heep upon it. The city of Karlsruhe, Germany, also associates a Hermann Hesse prize. In 1964, people founded the Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis, awarded biennially, alternately to a German-language literary journal or to the translator of work of Hesse to a foreign language. Throughout Germany, people named many schools. Young Germans desiring a different and more 'natural' way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind, first great novel of Hesse. In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world worldwide fame only came later. Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game, which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society. Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.

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