Hermann Hesses Auseinandersetzung mit der indischen Philosophie und Religion spiegelt sich im Siddhartha wider. Die stark stilisierte Geschichte eines indischen Brahmanensohns tr?gt autobiografische Z?ge, was u. a. in der Ablehnung dogmatischer...
A farmer perishing under a fallen tractor makes a last stab at philosophizing: “There was nothing dead that was ever beautiful.” It is a sentiment belied not only by the strange beauty in his story but also in the rough lives and deaths, small...