Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
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- Howl
Allen Ginsburg was a madman, a spectacled, bearded weirdo into Eastern philosophy long before hipsters made it fashionable. His most famous poem, "Howl", was a distillation of the wild and crazy youth culture of the 50s and 60s that embraced the dissatisfaction present in Siddhartha. - American Siddhartha
Siddhartha couldn't find contentment in material pleasures or things, and neither did the Zen Buddhism-loving Beat poet, Jack Kerouac. Only difference is that Siddhartha (thankfully) didn't develop severe alcoholism. Kerouac's novel, Big Sur, is full of asceticism and the desire for fulfillment.