Self-discovery

A journey of self-discovery is a popular theme in fiction. Literature • Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha (1922) • Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) • Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses (1992) • Yann Martel's Life of Pi (2001) • Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones (2002) • Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love (2006) • Craig Thompson's Habibi (2011) • Cheryl Strayed's Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (2012) Film • El Topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain (1973) by Alejandro Jodorowsky • A film version of Siddhartha (1972) • The Pillow Book (1996) by Peter Greenaway • Samsara (2001) and Valley of Flowers (2006) by Pan Nalin • Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) by Kim Ki-duk • Where the Wild Things Are (2009) by Spike Jonze • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) and Cemetery of Splendour (2015) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul • The Tree of Life (2011) by Terrence Malick • Avalokitesvara (2013) by Zhang Xin • Voyage (2013), Utopians (2015), Thirty Years of Adonis (2017), and Apostles (2022) by Scud • ''Sodom's Cat'' (2016) by Ting-Chun Huang • The Red Turtle (2016) by Michaël Dudok de Wit • Please Stand By (2017) by Ben Lewin • Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (2017) by Mouly Surya • Humba Dreams (2019) by Riri Riza • Nine Days (2020) by Edson Oda • Wendy (2020) by Benh Zeitlin • Soul (2020) by Pete Docter • Nomadland (2020) by Chloé Zhao • Across the River and into the Trees (2022) by Peter Flannery == See also ==