Hermann Hesse, Hilda Rosner: Siddhartha (Paperback, 1998, Pan MacMillan, Picador)
Paperback, 213 pages
Published March 3, 1998 by Pan MacMillan, Picador.
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.
Fourth read into Hesse and I can confidently say there’s a schema common to everything he writes. All I can do is marvel at the fact his reused ‘wander to find yourself’ bit has not once bored me. That being said, this is still no GBG or N&G.
