Siddhartha
Resumen del Libro
Siddharthas life takes him on a journey toward enlightenment. Afire with youthful idealism, the Brahmin joins a group of ascetics, fasting and living without possessions. Meeting Gotama the Buddha, he comes to feel this is not the right path, though he also declines joining the Buddhas followers. He reenters the world, hoping to learn of his own nature, but instead slips gradually into hedonism and materialism. Surfeited and disgusted, he flees from his possessions to become a ferrymans apprentice, learning what lessons he can from the river itself. Herman Hesses 1922 Bildungsroman parallels the life of Buddha and seems to argue that lessons of this sort cannot be taught but come from ones own struggle to find truth.
