SIDDHARTHA

HERMANN HESSE

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

Translated by Gunther Olesch, Anke Dreher, Amy Coulter, Stefan Langer and Semyon Chaichenets

Siddhartha (1922) is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong journey towards Enlightenment. On the way he faces the entire range of human experience and emotion: he lives with ascetics, meets Gotama the Buddha, learns the art of love from Kamala the courtesan, and is transformed by the simple philosophy of the ferryman Vasudeva whose wisdom comes not from learned teachings but from observing the River. Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss novelist, poet, and painter; he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.

Total running time: 5:06:16 Read by Adrian Praetzellis

Cover design by Kathryn Delaney p : z Prince Siddhartha, from a panel in the ceremonial hall of in the public domain Xa Loi Pagoda, Ho Chi Minh City.

Photograph by DoktorMax.

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