Hermann Hesse

A book—rare in our arid age—that takes root in the heart and grows there for a lifetime. Here the spirituality of the East and the West have met in a novel that enfigures deep human wisdom with a rich and colorful imagination. Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, it is the story of a soul's long quest in search of he ultimate answer to the enigma of man's role on this earth. As a youth, the young Indian Siddhartha meets the Buddha but cannot be content with a disciple's role: he must work out his own destiny and solve his own doubt—a tortuous road that carries him through the sensuality of a love affair with the beautiful courtesan Kamala, the temptation of success and riches, the heartache of struggle with his own son, to final renunciation and self-knowledge. The name "Siddhartha" is one often given to the Buddha himself—perhaps a clue to Hesse's aims in contrasting the traditional legendary figure with his own conception, as a European (Hesse was Swiss), of a spiritual explorer.

Siddhartha

Steppenwolf

Demian

(Magister Ludi)

The Glass Bead Game

Narcissus and Goldmund

Hilda Rosner

Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel (1922), was written in German, in a simple, lyrical style. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential during the 1960s. Hesse dedicated Siddhartha to his wife Ninon and supposedly afterwards to Romain Rolland and Wilhelm Gundert. The word Siddhartha is made up of two words in the Sanskrit language, siddha (achieved) + artha (meaning or wealth), which together means "he who has found meaning (of existence)" or "he who has attained his goals". In fact, the Buddha's own name, before his renunciation, was Siddhartha Gautama, Prince of Kapilvastu, Nepal. In this book, the Buddha is referred to as "Gotama".

The story of a Brahmin's son whose search for enlightenment leads him to the river of life itself.

Siddartha

Abstract: In de late middeleeuwen krijgt in de relatie tussen twee totaal verschillende mannen het conflict tussen ascese en de zinnelijkheid gestalte.

Narciso e Boccadoro

Die drei Geschichten aus dem Leben des Landstreichers Knulp, einem Nachfahren von Eichendorffs Taugenichts, zählen zu den reizvollsten Stücken der frühen Prosa Hermann Hesses. In der Folge seiner Werke gehören sie zum großen Zyklus seiner Gerbersau-Erzählungen, der uns das Leben in einer schwäbischen Kleinstadt um die Jahrhundertwende am Beispiel zahlreicher charakteristischer und größtenteils authentischer Einzelschicksale überliefert.

drei Geschichten aus dem Leben Knulps

Knulp

indiška poema

Sidharta

Beneath the Wheel

In Demian, Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse, author of Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, tells the dramatic story of young, docile Emil Sinclair's descent--led by precocious schoolmate Max Demian--into a secret and dangerous world of petty crime and revolt against convention and eventual awakening to selfhood.

The hero, a German choirmaster recalls an unfruitful pilgrimage to the East during his youth and begins to realize its hidden spiritual meanings. Reprint.

A Novel

The Journey to the East

قصة شباب إميل سنكلير : رواية

دميان

A. M. H. Binkhuysen

Een jonge Brahmaan uit het oude India moet verschillende stadia, reikend van ascese tot wellustig genieten, doormaken voordat het streven naar macht en bezit wordt overwonnen ten gunste van harmonie en waarachtigheid.

El lobo estepario

Agaclar

Un jour vient où l’enseignement traditionnel donné aux brahmanes ne suffit plus au jeune Siddhartha. Quand des ascètes samanas passent dans la ville, il les suit, se familiarise avec toutes leurs pratiques mais n’arrive pas à trouver la paix de l’âme recherchée. Puis c’est la rencontre avec Gotama, le Bouddha. Tout en reconnaissant sa doctrine sublime, il ne peut l’accepter et commence une autre vie auprès de la belle Kamala et du marchand Kamaswani. Les richesses qu’il acquiert font de lui un homme neuf, matérialiste, dont le personnage finit par lui déplaire.
Il s’en va à travers la forêt, au bord du ßeuve. C’est là que s’accomplit l’ultime phase du cycle de son évolution. Dans le cadre d’une Inde recréée à merveille, écrit dans un style d’une rare maîtrise, Siddhartha, roman d’une initiation, est un des plus grands de Hermann Hesse, prix Nobel de littérature.

Harry Haller ist in das kulturlose und unmenschliche Inferno unserer prunkenden und lärmenden Gegenwart vorgedrungen und steht mit seinem Begriff von Menschenwert... einsam außerhalb der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft. Seine Sehnsucht kennt eine unerreichbare Wirklichkeit: seine Verzweiflung treibt ihn zuweilen in die erreichbare andere zurück. Lust und Enttäuschung ihres Daseins führen in seinem Herzen und Hirn einen Kampf, an dem die Zivilisation Europas mit ihrem ganzen Bestände und Befunde teilnimmt. Oskar Loerke

Hermann Hesse

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