Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
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Author: Hermann HesseTranslator: Hilda Rosner
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1982-01-01
ISBN: 0553208845
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Bantam Classics
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- ISBN13: 9780553208849
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Book Reviews of Siddhartha
Book Review: speak about silence
Summary: 5 Stars
This book take you out of time.It is like reading your own breathing but from a different body, the body of reality. You should focus on the words that are on the page and the words that are not there. After reading it I felt this:
Silence: the breathing of time... and much more or simply that...
Summary of Siddhartha
A young Indian mystic, a contemporary of Buddha, sacrifices everything to search for the true meaning of life.In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Some say he's a sage. He was once a wandering shramana and, briefly, like thousands of others, he followed Gotama the Buddha, enraptured by his sermons. But this man, Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. Born the son of a Brahmin, Siddhartha was blessed in appearance, intelligence, and charisma. In order to find meaning in life, he discarded his promising future for the life of a wandering ascetic. Still, true happiness evaded him. Then a life of pleasure and titillation merely eroded away his spiritual gains until he was just like all the other "child people," dragged around by his desires. Like Hermann Hesse's other creations of struggling young men, Siddhartha has a good dose of European angst and stubborn individualism. His final epiphany challenges both the Buddhist and the Hindu ideals of enlightenment. Neither a practitioner nor a devotee, neither meditating nor reciting, Siddhartha comes to blend in with the world, resonating with the rhythms of nature, bending the reader's ear down to hear answers from the river. In this translation Sherab Chodzin Kohn captures the slow, spare lyricism of Siddhartha's search, putting her version on par with Hilda Rosner's standard edition. --Brian Bruya
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