by Hermann Hesse · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845901843
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«Siddharta» is the philosophical novel by Hermann Hesse published by Adelphi in paperback (198 pages, in Italian).
The protagonist, a young Brahmin from India, abandons his privileged life to seek enlightenment. He travels different paths: asceticism, love, wealth and the business world, without surrendering completely to any doctrine or teacher. Only by listening to his own experience and reconciling with the flow of life does he attain serenity. The novel is in dialogue with Buddhism and Eastern philosophy.
The novel, first published in 1922, appears here in the Italian translation by Massimo Mila in the Piccola Biblioteca Adelphi collection (No. 32); this edition is from 1985.
For readers interested in a classic of spiritual literature, Eastern philosophy and stories of inner search.
Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-Swiss poet and novelist, and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. His interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions, combined with his involvement with Jungian analysis, helped shape his literary work. His best-known novels include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Narcissus and Goldmund, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge, and spirituality.
