Herman hesse's siddhartha7/6/2023 The young Siddhartha’s quest is prompted by nagging restlessness, typical of almost all Hesse’s characters, and driven by his thirst for understanding. Siddhartha follows its eponymous central character (the name plays on the birth name of the Buddha) not only on an “inward” journey, but one through space and time. The heart of Siddartha is in the portrayal of an intensely personal “restlessness of the soul”, and in the exploration of difficult questions of meaning, purpose, truth and enlightenment. Its continued appeal does not really lie in the drama, romance and spectacle that have allowed other literary texts – Les Miserables, say, or Cabaret – to make the transition. And appropriately, like many of Hesse’s works, Siddhartha has received a particularly international reception.īut despite its popularity it’s an unlikely source of material for a musical. It was adapted from a work written in German by an author who was born with (inherited) Estonian citizenship, grew up in Germany and became a Swiss citizen. It’s an Italian-language production, set in ancient India. The show is based on the classic novel Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse, winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature.Īnd if any production lives up to the “international” billing of Edinburgh’s festival, this one surely does. This year’s Edinburgh fringe has seen the UK premiere of Siddhartha: The Musical.
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