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siddhartha

Siddhartha


Siddhartha, written by Herman Hesse in 1922 tells the story of an Indian man whose lifelong journey is the search for spiritual insight. Accounting from the time Siddhartha leaves his father, family, and home, the story tells of many changes in the man’s life from rich to poor, love to indifference, and hope to despair. Hesse is extremely vivid in his detail of not what is external to man, but what is internal, as Siddhartha searches the cure for his troubles and answer to his existence. Throughout the story Siddhartha struggles and prospers in his thoughts and actions but does not find enlightenment until he is an old man. Siddhartha helps his lifelong friend to find peace and in turn is gratified with his ability to do so.
The story begins with the young Brahman, Siddhartha, finding himself very unhappy with his life in the village. Hesse writes,
But Siddhartha himself was not happy. Wandering along the rosy paths of the fig garden, sitting in co...

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