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Siddhartha: A New Translation
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Siddhartha: A New Translation Compact disc - 2008

by Hermann Hesse; Read by Baron Christian; Sherab Chodzin Kohn (Translator)


Summary

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.

From the publisher

This classic of twentieth-century literature chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at the time of the Buddha--a journey of the spirit that has inspired generations of readers. Here is an audio edition of a fresh translation from Sherab Chdzin Kohn, a gifted translator and longtime student of Buddhism and Eastern philosophy. Kohn's flowing, poetic translation conveys the philosophical and spiritual nuances of Hermann Hesse's text, paying special attention to the qualities of meditative experience. 4 CDs, 5 hours, unabridged.

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  • Title Siddhartha: A New Translation
  • Author Hermann Hesse; Read by Baron Christian; Sherab Chodzin Kohn (Translator)
  • Binding Compact Disc
  • Edition Unabridged
  • Pages 4
  • Volumes 4
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Shambhala Audio
  • Date 2008-04-08
  • ISBN 9781590305515 / 1590305515
  • Weight 0.31 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 5.76 x 5.38 x 0.82 in (14.63 x 13.67 x 2.08 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

"Filled with timeless truths and told so beautifully with images that burn deep into your being, Hesse's novel speaks powerfully to every generation of spiritual seekers. A fresh translation of Siddhartha that offers greater authenticity than any other translation—while still preserving the unique beauty of the original prose."— Branches of Light

About the author

Hermann Hesse was born in 1877 in Calw, Germany. He was the son and grandson of Protestant missionaries and was educated in religious schools until the age of thirteen, when he dropped out of school. At age eighteen he moved to Basel, Switzerland, to work as a bookseller and lived in Switzerland for most of his life. His early novels include Peter Camenzind (1904), Beneath the Wheel (1906), Gertrud (1910), and Rosshalde (1914). During this period Hesse married and had three sons. During World War I Hesse worked to supply German prisoners of war with reading materials and expressed his pacifist leanings in antiwar tracts and novels. Hesse's lifelong battles with depression drew him to study Freud during this period and, later, to undergo analysis with Jung. His first major literary success was the novel Demian (1919). When Hesse's first marriage ended, he moved to Montagnola, Switzerland, where he created his best-known works: Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1927), Narcissus and Goldmund (1930), Journey to the East (1932), and The Glass Bead Game (1943). Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. He died in 1962 at the age of eighty-five.
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