Siddhartha

hermann hesse joseph delage

Un jour vient où l’enseignement traditionnel donné aux brahmanes ne suffit plus au jeune Siddhartha. Quand des ascètes samanas passent dans la ville, il les suit, se familiarise avec toutes leurs pratiques mais n’arrive pas à trouver la paix de l’âme recherchée. Puis c’est la rencontre avec Gotama, le Bouddha. Tout en reconnaissant sa doctrine sublime, il ne peut l’accepter et commence une autre vie auprès de la belle Kamala et du marchand Kamaswani. Les richesses qu’il acquiert font de lui un homme neuf, matérialiste, dont le personnage finit par lui déplaire.
Il s’en va à travers la forêt, au bord du fleuve. C’est là que s’accomplit l’ultime phase du cycle de son évolution. Dans le cadre d’une Inde recréée à merveille, écrit dans un style d’une rare maîtrise, Siddhartha, roman d’une initiation, est un des plus grands de Hermann Hesse, prix Nobel de littérature.

Genres fictionphilosophyspiritualityliteratureclassicsbuddhismgerman literaturenovelshistorical fictionschool

158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 1,1922

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Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published: October 31, 1975 by Le Livre de Poche
ISBN: 9782253008484
ASIN: 2253008486
Language: French

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Siddhartha

A Brahmins sonSiddhartha Gautama,[e] most commonly referred to as the Buddha ("the awakened"),[f][g] was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE[4][5][6][c] and founded Buddhism.According t...
Govinda

Siddharthas friend and shadow from childhood.more...
Gotama

Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic (śramaṇa) and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in the eastern...
Kamala

A beautiful courtesan who bore Siddhartha a son....
Vasudeva

A ferryman....

About the author

hermann hesse

Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.

Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game, which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society.

In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world; worldwide fame only came later. Young Germans desiring a different and more "natural" way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind, first great novel of Hesse.

Throughout Germany, people named many schools. In 1964, people founded the Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis, awarded biennially, alternately to a German-language literary journal or to the translator of work of Hesse to a foreign language. The city of Karlsruhe, Germany, also associates a Hermann Hesse prize.