Glass Bead Game

Author(s): Hermann Hesse

Classics

"The title refers to an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by scholars in the kingdom of Castalia around the year 2400. This game involves all branches of knowledge, and spiritual values - especially those of the east. Hesse's longing to find a dynamic fusion of mind with nature is set forth more penetratingly in this book than in any other he wrote. Critics have seen in it a late, definitive stage in his thinking influenced by the tragedy of Europe in the Second World War."


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Hermann Hesse's magnum opus and a twentieth-century classic

"One of the truly important books of the century, in any language" The Times "Sublime" -- Thomas Mann "A massive novel set out to explore the positive side of human nature, the fullness of man's capacity as a thinker and as a prober into scared mysteries...Touching and impressive" Observer

Hermann Hesse was born in Calw, Wurttemburg in 1877. In 1919, as a protest against German militarism in the First World War, Hesse moved to Switzerland where he lived in self-imposed exile until his death at the age of eighty-five in 1962. His major works include Steppenwolf, Siddharta and Narcissus and Goldmund. Hesse worked on his magnum opus, The Glass Bead Game, for twelve years. This novel was specifically cited when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.

General Fields

  • : 9780099283621
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 0.372
  • : July 1999
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 34mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Hermann Hesse
  • : Paperback
  • : 01/09/
  • : en
  • : 833.912
  • : 530
  • : Modern fiction