Just finished listening to your delightful and artistic reading of Siddhartha. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. Herman Hesse (1877-1962) was a German-Swiss novelist, poet, and painter. On the way he faces the entire range of human experience and emotion: he lives with ascetics, meets Gotama the Buddha, learns the art of love from Kamala the courtesan, and is transformed by the simple philosophy of the ferryman Vasudeva whose wisdom comes not from learned teachings but from observing the River. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong journey towards Enlightenment. Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Translated by Gunther Olesch, Anke Dreher, Amy Coulter, Stefan Langer and Semyon Chaichenets LibriVox recording of Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse.

Siddhartha by hermann hesse