Wow, this is bad. How did he go from writing Siddhartha to this? It reads like a chimera or Melville and Dickens, combining the worst aspects of both. Meandering, philosophical sentences without the beautiful prose and backdrop of Melville, and the density of Dickens without the likeable characters and plot.
Is anything else by him worth reading? Siddhartha was great and actually inspired me to read The Upanishads and The Bhagavad Gita.
how was siddhartha good?
Tl;dr
It perfectly describes the journey spent by every man who seeks truth. Siddhartha went through several phases and was left empty and unsatisfied in all of them. He could have easily accepted one of the lifestyles, as his friend did, but chose to stay on his search. You get to see him grow and change over his entire life before he finally realizes that the truth was obvious and intuitive the whole time.
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>he finally realizes that the truth was obvious and intuitive the whole time.
but it's not, that's just modern "just be yourself" empty wisdom
I suggest you read more philosophy. Plato, the sages of India, Jesus, all say the same thing. Why would God place a wall before the Spiritual truth that can only be scaled with knowledge? Wisdom is equally attainable by every man
Go away, filthy hippie.
I don't get his problem with jazz. Did Hesse hate Niggers?
But it's better than Siddhartha.