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Episode: Siddhartha
Description: The series that takes a look at books, plays and stories and how they work. John Yorke examines Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha.Hermann Hesse was an established writer by the time he wrote Siddhartha and didn’t live to see its lionisation by the 60s counterculture. But even in his own time Hesse’s writing appealed to young people, particularly young men, in a way that he found irritating. John looks at why this book so appealed to younger generations, especially to the one that emerged in the 60s and at how Hesse’s own background actually had para...