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Hermann Hesse: Liu lang zhe zhi ge (Chinese language, 2013, Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si)

287 pages

Chinese language

Published Oct. 12, 2013 by Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si.

ISBN:
978-957-32-7268-7
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OCLC Number:
878079300

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4 stars (2 reviews)

Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom.

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I read Siddhartha years ago, when I was a kid. I remember nothing about that first reading experience, except these things: I liked it enough to read more by Hermann Hesse (Demien, I think, although I recall nothing of that book either); I also recall that my sister’s friend’s mom saw that I was reading it and told me she had read and liked the book also.

I re-read this book over the weekend and am somewhat incredulous that I had “enjoyed” it before. But perhaps I am selling my adolescent self short.

My yoga teacher, Rosie, once said that if we practice yoga in this life, it’s because we practiced yoga before in a previous life. If that’s so, then that may explain the interest I had in my initial reading.

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Subjects

  • Mysticism
  • Buddhism
  • Fiction

Places

  • India