Siddhartha

Resumen del libro

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H is for Hesse. A young Brahmin named Siddhartha searches for ultimate reality after meeting with the Buddha. His quest takes him from a life of decadence to asceticism, from the illusory joys of sensual love with a beautiful courtesan, and of wealth and fame, to the painful struggles with his son and the ultimate wisdom of renunciation. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, written with a deep and moving empathy for humanity, Herman Hesse's strangely simple Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory the troubled twentieth century ever produced.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Hermann Hessex{0026}lt;/B (1877-1962), novelista y poeta alemán, nacionalizado suizo. Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1946, es una figura de culto en el mundo occidental por su celebración del misticismo oriental y la búsqueda del propio yo, muy influenciado por el psicoanálisis junguiano. Abandonó pronto la escuela y fue autodidacta a base de numerosas lecturas. La desesperanza y la desilusión que le produjeron la Primera Guerra Mundial y una serie de tragedias domésticas, y sus intentos por encontrar soluciones, se convirtieron en el asunto de su posterior obra novelística. Sus escritos se fueron enfocando hacia la búsqueda espiritual de nuevos objetivos y valores que sustituyeran a los tradicionales, que ya no eran válidos. Es autor de varias novelas como x{0026}lt;I Peter Camenzindx{0026}lt;/I (1904), x{0026}lt;I Bajo las ruedasx{0026}lt;/I (1906), x{0026}lt;I Demian x{0026}lt;/I (1919), x{0026}lt;I Viaje al Estex{0026}lt;/I (1932), x{0026}lt;I Siddhartha x{0026}lt;/I (1922), x{0026}lt;I El lobo estepariox{0026}lt;/I (1927), quizá su novela más innovadora, x{0026}lt;I Narciso y Goldmundox{0026}lt;/I (1930) y x{0026}lt;I El juego de abaloriosx{0026}lt;/I (1943), que cada vez se hicieron más simbólicas y cercanas al psicoanálisis.x{0026}lt;/P