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Title: River Man
Review: It's wonderful when people contextualize two completely different things and end up loving both. That's the case with this book and the Nick Drake's song "River Man", which I was very attached to before reading Hesse's Siddhartha.The book it's very precise in its objective, never surrendering to secondary characters, while being very economical both in its prose and in its subject, but, at the end, the reader may feel there's little to discover in Siddhartha as a man: even the description of his first sexual experience is painfully passionless. The novel borrow its form from short stories, and Hesse reveals his true talent throughtout the metaphorical context he surrounds his characters.Even though the reader doesn't agree with Siddhartha's conception of life as a whole, the novel is interesting because it portrays a man's itinerary throughout life, and this may explain the wide enthusiasm it still evokes in young people.
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