Siddhartha

Creating a Buddha that surpasses the generally accepted image of Buddha is a great, unprecedented achievement. In my eyes, Siddhartha is a medicine far superior to the Bible... Siddhartha, which made Henry Miller, one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, say these words, is the masterpiece of German writer Hermann Hesse, winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. World War I" Siddhartha, who called on people to rebuild their lives and glorified Eastern mysticism in the years following his reign, has been read almost like a holy book for generations. Hesse, who describes the first years of Buddha's life in a poetic style in Siddhartha, deals with man's attempt to escape from the established forms of civilization by finding his true self. In this book, he says, I have tried to capture what is common to all religions, to all forms of belief adopted by people, something that transcends all national distinctions and can be adopted by all races and all individuals.