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Full Title                           Siddhartha

Author                       Hermann Hesse

Type of Work            Novel

Genre                         Spiritual and Religious Novel

Language                  German

 

Time and Place Written             1919–1921, Switzerland

Date of First Publication            1922

 

Narrator

An unnamed narrator tracks Siddhartha’s spiritual progress.

 

Point of View

Third-person omniscient. The point of view follows Siddhartha most closely.

 

Tone

Measured without being detached; formal

 

Tense                       Past

 

Setting (Time)

Concurrent with the life of Buddha, estimated at around 625 b.c.

 

Setting (Place)          India

 

Protagonist               Siddhartha

 

Major Conflict

Siddhartha searches for total spiritual enlightenment.