He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. Herman Hesse (1877-1962) was a German-Swiss novelist, poet, and painter. On the way he faces the entire range of human experience and emotion: he lives with ascetics, meets Gotama the Buddha, learns the art of love from Kamala the courtesan, and is transformed by the simple philosophy of the ferryman Vasudeva whose wisdom comes not from learned teachings but from observing the River. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong journey towards Enlightenment.
Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Translated by Gunther Olesch, Anke Dreher, Amy Coulter, Stefan Langer and Semyon Chaichenets
LibriVox recording of Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse.
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