Siddhārtha

Description:

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.

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People: Gautama Buda,  Gautama Buddha,  Hermann Hesse (1877-1962),  Buddha

Places: India,  Inde

Times: Early period, to ca. 250 B.C.