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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Hesse, Hermann

Hesse, Hermann
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Siddhartha: Chapters 8 - 12

Chapter Eight. By The River

Title

Siddhartha returns to the same river which he originally crossed some
twenty years earlier. The river no longer marks a boundary between two
different worlds. Siddhartha does not cross it now only to enter a new life,
but he recognizes its values and he decides to remain "by" it.

Despair and suicide

Siddhartha reaches his lowest point as he looks into the river and
contemplates suicide. As often in Hesse, despair is here presented as a
necessary prelude to entering a state of heightened ...

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