Siddharatha

Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of selfdiscovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the 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. in fact, the Buddha's own name, before his renunciation, was Siddhartha Gautama, Prince of Kapilvastu. in this book, the Buddha is referred to as "Gautama". The story takes plac...