Some seek enlightenment in self-abasement; others, in surrender to the senses; still others, in a contemplation of time and eternity.

The protagonist of Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha does all three. Today, on The Projectionist’s Lending Library, we examine Hesse’s 1922 novel, a kind of parallel life of the Buddha, and the 1971 electric Western Zachariah—perhaps the wildest adaptation we have looked at so far. So saddle up, adjust your gunbelt, and let’s ride into the wildest frontier of all—the human soul.

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