Siddhartha is a classic for everyone in quest of self-knowledge and maturity. This book has inspired, and delighted readers from all over the world, and PBS’s The Great American Read nominated it as one of America’s best-loved novels. The novel is set in a place and time far away from the Germany of 1922, and it is full of the charm of Hesse grandparents’ life in India, and his mother fables. His mother was born in India, and their grandparents lived almost all their life as missionaries in that country. The novel is a document of Hermann Hesse’s time and philosophical studies, synthesizing Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, and Western philosophy into an epic tale full of desire for research of meaning, the real meaning of this life.
Siddhartha is a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege and comfort to seek spiritual fulfillment and wisdom like Saint Francisco. On his journey, Siddhartha encounters ascetics, Buddhist monks, and successful merchants, as well as a beautiful girl named Kamala. Traveling and trying to live his thoughts among these people, Siddhartha discovers that actual knowledge comes from within.
Tabella dei contenuti
About the Editor
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
PART ONE
The Son of the Brahman
With the Samanas
Gotama
Awakening
PART TWO
Kamala
With the Childlike People
Sansara
By the River
The Ferryman
The Son
OM
Govinda
Circa l’autore
SILVIA LICCIARDELLO MILLEPIED is an Italian writer born in Teramo, Italy. She is an award-winning songwriter and singer, and editor of more than seventy titles, including three children’s books. Considered a child prodigy among her peers, she wrote and performed her first play when she was eleven years old, and her first song when she was only a six-year-old little girl. She studied Music, Arts, Performing Arts and Cinema at the University of Bologna, and at La Sapienza University of Rome with a diploma in Cinema. After a few years, she attended an online literature course at Harvard University with David Damrosch and Martin Puchner. She is now working on her first novel and has spent the past few years writing different stories. She became an editor and publisher in order to study the craft from the most prominent and famous authors of the past. Founder of Res Stupenda, RSMedia Italia and Astrid Magazine, she is also the author of the Italian translation of ‘Sylvie’ by Nerval (2019), and ‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Austen (2019), and two books about cinema: ‘Lo Strano Caso Fincher’ (2014) and ‘Tempo Labirinto’ (2015).
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