سدهارتا

Author: Herman Hesse Publisher: Dar Al-Mada Category: Novel Number of pages: 183 There was a tree on the riverbank, a coconut tree. Siddhartha leaned on it, wrapped his arm around its trunk, then looked at the green waters flowing beneath him. He looked down and filled himself with the desire to relax and drown in the water. For the terrible emptiness in the water reflected a terrifying emptiness in his soul. Yes, he was at his end. Nothing remained except a desire to remove himself. This was the act he longed to do, to destroy the formula he hated, so that the fish would swallow Siddhartha’s heart, this fool, this decayed, tattered body, this dull, exhausted spirit, so that the fish would swallow him, and the spirits would elevate him, and the demons tear him apart.