Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #651579 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Synopsis
This classic of 20th century literature is one of the most famous examples of the West's fascination with Indian culture & particularly Buddhistic philosophy. Hesse tells the story of Siddhartha, a Brahmin on a quest for self-discovery

Customer Reviews

A Philosophy For Life
This novel is about our hero Siddartha's search for spiritual truth and his eventual discovery of a personal philosophy, which leads him to enlightenment and a life free of fear and desire.

Siddartha is also an allegory that can apply to all of us. It teaches us how to have a liberating philosophy for life, which most westerners will very different from their usual modern, materialistic perspectives.

Should you decide to read this wonderful work, it is worth noting from the outset that, though it contains religion, it does not preach the tenets of any faith. It is purely and simply about philosophy.

This book is worth reading for it's own merits, but if you read Hesse's Demian and Steppenwolf first you will get even more benefit from it. These three novels changed my life!

A great book...for those who find a personal truth
The message of Siddhartha is a personal one. As such, it can't be forced on someone as "required reading". Readers will either find Siddhartha inspirational because of an inherent truth they recognize relative to their own conduct in life, or boring because they find nothing personally relevant below the surface of the simple narrative. Siddhartha is wonderfully concise...if you hate it, its over quickly, and it doesn't require too much investment to revisit years later when your relationship to the story may be profoundly different.

An all time classic!
When someone gave me this book, I openend it up somewhere in the first third, just to have a glance at a few pages. Well, once started I never stopped reading till the last page and then I read it all over again.

Throughout the book you get glimpses of deep wisdom in order to find out what our lives are truely about - at the end...

Hesse's "Siddharta" is "The Alchemist" of the beginning of the 20th century; an all time classic! A must for everyone, who likes meaningfull stories.

J.