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Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha Kısa Özet "Genel olarak herkesçe kabullenilmiş Buddha imgesini aşan bir Buddha yaratmak, daha önce eşine rastlanmamış, büyük bir başarıdır. Siddhartha, benim gözümde, Kutsal Kitap`tan kat kat üstün bir ilaçtır..." 20. yüzyılın en büyük romancılarından Henry Miller`a bu sözleri söyleten Siddhartha, 1946 Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü sahibi Alman yazar Hermann Hesse`nin baş­yapıtıdır. 1. Dünya Savaşı`nı izleyen yıllarda insanları yaşamlarını yeniden kurmaya çağıran, Doğu gizemciliğini yücelten Siddhartha, kuşaklar boyunca nerdeyse bir "kutsal kitap" gibi okunmuştur. Siddhartha`da Buddha`nın yaşamının ilk yıllarını şiirsel bir üslupla anlatan Hesse, insanın öz benliğini bularak uygarlığın yerleşik biçimlerinden kurtulmaya çalışmasını işler. "Bu kitapta," der, "tüm dinlerde, insanların benimsediği tüm inanış biçimlerinde ortak olan yanı, tüm ulusal ayrımları aşan, tüm ırkların, tüm bireylerin benimseyebileceği şeyi yakalamaya çalıştım."

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““Slower, he walked along in his thoughts and asked himself: “But what is this, what you have sought to learn from teachings and from teachers, and what they, who have taught you much, were still unable to teach you?” And he found: “It was the self, the purpose and essence of which I sought to learn. It was the self, I wanted to free myself from, which I sought to overcome. But I was not able to overcome it, could only deceive it, could only flee from it, only hide from it. Truly, no thing in this world has kept my thoughts thus busy, as this my very own self, this mystery of me being alive, of me being one and being separated and isolated from all others, of me being Siddhartha! And there is no thing in this world I know less about than about me, about Siddhartha!”″”
Siddhartha • Hermann Hesse
““He had started to suspect that his venerable father and his other teachers, that the wise Brahmans had already revealed to him the most and best of their wisdom, that they had already filled his expecting vessel with their richness, and the vessel was not full, the spirit was not content, the soul was not calm, the heart was not satisfied.””
Siddhartha • Hermann Hesse