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Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. It repeats the story of buddha in a different way, but in the same dimension, with the same meaning. The translator captures hesse s poetry and the word processor made few if any mistakes. As a western man profoundly affected by the mysticism of eastern thought, he wrote novels, stories, and essays bearing a vital spiritual force that has captured the imagination and loyalty of many generations of readers.
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Get 2 free audiobooks with a 30 day free audible trial on amazon. Written by hermann hesse, narrated by harish bhimani. Read in english by peter kuhn a major preoccupation of hesse in writing siddhartha was to cure his sickness with life lebenskrankheit by immersing himself in indian philosophy such as that expounded in the upanishads and the bhagavad gita. Rejecting conventional spiritual practices and teachings, he attempts to find his own path to enlightenment. Hermann hesse 18771962 was a germanswiss poet, novelist, and painter. Hermann hesse was a germanswiss poet, novelist, and painter.