Siddhartha

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In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life -- the beginning of suffering, rejection, peace, and, finally, wisdom.

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Hermann Hesse's novels include The Glass Bead Game and Demian. The winner of the Nobel Prize, he died in 1962 at age 85. Ludwig Max Fischer, PhD, has been professor of German and comparative mythology or over thirty years at Willamette University in Salem, OR.