Historical Book Review on Siddhartha Herman Hesse's 'Siddhartha: An Indian Tale' was published in 1922. It is considered to be Hesse's best work and is still very popular to this day. It is a fictitious biography and it records the passage of Siddhartha through phases in life until he attains enlightenment. To understand why Hesse wrote this book, one most first know some background information about him. Herman Hesse (of German heritage) was, at one point, …showed first 75 words of 1024 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1024 total…things, he would write of them. One would therefore assume that Hess also reached enlightenment. It could be said that Siddhartha the story encourages us also to reach enlightenment. By recording selected key experiences on how one individual reached this ultimate truth, it could be implied that this book is a guide on how to do just that, as it has been used before for that exact purpose. That is what I have wondered about.