December 8, 2008
Siddhartha
Written by Herman Hesse
“All the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was one world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.”
—Chapter Om (11), p.135-136
Fun Facts
- Siddhartha is from Sanskrit, it is a combination of two words siddha (gotten) and artha (wealth). Together they suggest “one who has found meaning” or “one who has achieved his or her goals.”
- Siddhartha is Hesse’s ninth novel. Hesse wrote it after spending some time in India during the early 1900s and first published it in 1922.
- Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.
- Hesse’s parents expected him to follow the family tradition in theology. Hesse entered the Protestant seminary at Maulbronn in 1891, but was expelled.
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