Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

1922 · Gautama Buddha -- Fiction, India -- Social life and customs -- Fiction, Spiritual life -- Fiction, Self-realization -- Fiction · 50 chapters

Nobel prizes in literature in 50 chapters by Hermann Hesse. It opens on Siddhartha, with Govinda and Brahman alongside. It begins: “The sun tanned his light shoulders by the banks of the river when bathing, performing the sacred ablutions, the sacred offerings”.

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