Book · 1922 · Fiction

Siddhartha

Name: Siddhartha
Author: Hermann Hesse

Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 132 pages

★ 7.2 editorial score

Siddhartha leaves home to seek enlightenment, meets the Buddha and declines to follow him, then spends years chasing money and a courtesan. What finally teaches him is a river and its ferryman.

Genre

Philosophical fiction

Medium

Novel

Subject

Buddhism Enlightenment Love Meaning

Setting

Nepal

Time

1922Depicts Classical Antiquity

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