Siddhartha (New Directions Paperback) - Softcover

The cool and strangely simple story makes a beautiful little book, classic in proportion and style; it should be read slowly and with savor, preferably during the lonely hours of the night.

Hermann Hesse is the greatest writer of the century.

In Siddhartha the setting is Indian and we encounter the Buddha, but the author's ethos is still closer to Goethe.

One could even hope that Hesse's readers are hungrily imbibing Siddhartha, and that they will be so wisely foolish as to live by it.

Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover ultimate spiritual truths