Instead of continuing to disdain physical pleasure, he travels to a city and becomes a wealthy merchant. After a while, though, he finds himself just as dissatisfied with this path as he was with the formulaic religion of his youth. Loosely based on the Buddhist and Hindu teachings Hesse studied extensively while writing it, Siddhartha tells the story of a young man who leaves behind his privileged position in ancient Indian society for a life of ascetic contemplation. Here are my most-loved Hermann Hesse books in my subjective order:
The best novels by Hermann Hesse probably won’t change your life, but they may well encourage you to see things in a new light. You can’t really finish a book by Hesse without getting tricked into thinking, though.
People didn’t have smartphones back then and actually read 300-page books for entertainment. Most of them are fun, as long as we don’t forget that they were written about a century ago. Philosophy Covered in Chocolateĭespite the enormous depths the best books by Hermann Hesse probe, they’re quite readable despite having been translated. He doesn’t offer many trite answers, but he does manage to pose questions most people never manage to think about. Hesse is one of the few authors of any era who can examine topics like ethics and spirituality without sounding either preachy or bewildered. It wasn’t long before I’d gotten my hands on Steppenwolf and Beneath the Wheel, eventually moving on to his more challenging books like Journey to the East as an adult. Hermann Hesse has been one of my favorite authors ever since, as a teenager, a friend lent me Demian. Should Be Required Reading in High School
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