Self-Discovery In Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha

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Hermann Hesse was born in July of 1877 and died at the age of 85 in August of 1962. Hesse is a German poet, novelist, and a painter. His best know works include Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, and many others. Hesse has also won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.
Siddhartha is a book by Hermann Hesse. The book was made in 1922 and is 152 pages long. The book was originally wrote in German but it was translated into English. Siddhartha was Hesse’s ninth book. It was published in Germany in 1922 but then published in 1951 in the United States, but it didn’t really become popular and influential until the 1960s. Hesse dedicated the book to his wife Ninon, after her to Romain Rolland, and Wilhelm Gundert. The reason Hesse wrote Siddhartha was because …show more content…

He goes on this journey during the time of the Gautama Buddha. Siddhartha decides to leave home to become ascetic. Siddhartha is joined by his friend named Govinda, and they become homeless and eventually seek out the Buddha (Gautam) so they can speak with him. Once they find the Buddha the follow his teachings but then Godvina ends up going with the Buddha himself while Siddhartha doesn’t follow. While Siddhartha goes on his own spiritual journey throughout the book he finds a woman named Kamala but while being with her he realizes his life is just a game and returns back to his river and thinks about killing himself. But he doesn’t he becomes saved by a sacred word (OM). Once he’s saved he sees Kamala for the first time in a while and realizes the child she’s with is his. Kamala ends up dying and Siddhartha tries to raise his son on his own. But his son runs away seeking his own path and as the original Buddha is dying, Godvina and Siddhartha reconnect. Siddhartha then simply urges people to identify and love the world in its completeness. As Siddhartha does that, Govinda bows to him and Siddhartha smiles, having found

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