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Excerpt
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.
Literary origin
Country whose literature this title belongs to, based on author tradition —not necessarily where the story is set.
Germany
Topics from Open Library
Subjects
- Alegorías
- Buddha (The concept)
- Buddha and Buddhism
- Buddhism
- Buddhist Philosophy
- Budismo
- Chrestomathies and readers
- Classic Literature
- Enlightenment (Buddhism)
- Ficción
People
- Gautama Buda
- Gautama Buddha
- Buddha
Times & places
- Early period, to ca. 250 B.C.