Comparing Hesse's Siddhartha and the Bhagavad Gita
While much of the literature I know to have come out of India has had bestowed upon it the moniker "postcolonial," Hennann Hesse's Siddhartha - published in 1922 - surely then stands in the category of "colonial literature," especially as it was written by a Westerner. Notwi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2008
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Nidān
Year: 2008, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 77-83 |
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| Summary: | While much of the literature I know to have come out of India has had bestowed upon it the moniker "postcolonial," Hennann Hesse's Siddhartha - published in 1922 - surely then stands in the category of "colonial literature," especially as it was written by a Westerner. Notwithstanding its timeless feel, its fonnal storytelling structure, nor its categorization as a Bildungsroman, Siddhartha is very much at home in India and well versed in Indian scriptures. It is my intention to compare what we learned throughout this Block concerning the Bhagavad Gita's contents to the message of Hesse's Siddhartha. |
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| ISSN: | 2414-8636 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nidān
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.58125/nidan.2008.1 |