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Title	:	The Glass Bead Game
Author	:	Hermann Hesse
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 558 pages
Published	:	December 6th 2002 by Picador (first published 1943)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Philosophy. Literature. European Literature. German Literature. Novels

The Glass Bead Game Paperback | Pages: 558 pages

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The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, 'The Glass Bead Game' is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature.

Set in the 23rd century, 'The Glass Bead Game' is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since his childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and scientific arts, such as mathematics, music, logic, and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game).

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Original Title:	Das Glasperlenspiel
ISBN:	0312278497 (ISBN13: 9780312278496)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Joseph Knecht
Literary Awards:	Премія імені Максима Рильського (1992), Retro Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2019)

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I've just relocated this book to my "top-favo" books and I don't have many in there. Looking at this book briefly, I need to write a review (at some stage) on this wonderfully written book.

The Glass Bead Game is Hesse's final work, and is supposed to lay out his ideas and philosophies more completely than anything previously. According to my foreword by Ziolkowski, this book represents a progression beyond both the simplistic, egocentric spiritualism of Siddhartha and the Nietzschean misanthropy of Steppenwolf. He also remarks on the book's form: a narration by a stodgy academic about the life of a luminary master. Like Carlsyle's 'Sartor Resartus', there is meant to be an ironic

This is surely one of the most beautiful dreams depicted in literature. It is also a reminder that even the most beautiful dreams cannot feed our longing, which is ultimately for a reconciliation with the Real. The Glass Bead Game is an allegory of the relationship between symbol and reality, between life and the magic lantern of the mind.Hesse's Castalia is a utopia of mind, which is born of and supported at great expense by a society recently ravaged by a terrible war. It is an enclosed place

Theres a scene in Antonio Tabucchis Indian Nocturne in which the narrator meets an Indian intellectual who asks him, among other things, what he thinks of Hermann Hesse. The narrator, resenting the interruption and perhaps with a sense he is being mocked, heaps scorn on the German spiritualist, calling him sentimental and likening him to a sweet liqueur, and only later realises he hasnt said what he thought of Hesse at all. In some way, these days, I suspect theres a little of this narrator in

A tremendous disappointment, especially given the shimmering praise the book garners on all sides. I realize Im at odds with the world in judging this book harshly, and I realize there may yet be some dimension of brilliance here that Im just not seeing, but grant me this, its not for lack of trying. No other novel have I ever laid down without a backward glance within a few dozen pages of the end, certain at last that the great payoff for my eight hundred pages of patience was never going to

The Glass Bead Game: Invented hundreds of years ago it combines all art and knowledge of Western culture, correlates and re-combines in infinitely combinations: world literature, sciences, fine arts, and, last but not least, music according to fixed mathematical laws. People from far away travel to the province of Castalia to witness the annual multi-day festival of games. Castalia: The separate, secluded republic of scholars, artists, and glass bead players. The province supplies its elite

Some felt that The Glass Bead Game, as an utopian and anticipatory novel, had been able to inspire Foundation by Asimov, Dune by Frank Herbert or The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, drawing its roots in the evocation of Plato's Republic or the Abbey of Rabelaisian Theme.This is likely, and some pages may also be reminiscent of Eco's novels.But, for me, this book is above all the original syncretic sum of a lifetime, that of Hermann Hesse, thinker and essayist probably as much, if not