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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 833.912
EAN: 9780312278496
ISBN: 0312278497
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: December 06, 2002
Publisher: Picador
Studio: Picador
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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 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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It's a synthesis. Imagine the sum of human perspectives and knowledge reduced into symbols and played like a symphony to permute meanings and explore conclusions. That's the glass bead game, which approaches a spiritual experience if played correctly. Frankly, it's a wonderful dream.
Despite the flaws of old literature and translations, I found this book riveting. The first fifty pages of background is not absorbing, and the style makes it hard it get into. The wonderfulness is ... Read More
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Can I rate it zero stars? Definitely not a "page turner!"
Having read Siddhartha some years ago and as I recall enjoying it, I thought I would like this book.
However, I am plodding through and keep hoping it will get better, pick up, become interesting. It has so many shortcomings I don't know where to begin but to summarize I will use a sentence from a 5-star review "Absent from Castalia are action, creativity, originality, and experiment" substituting "the book" for ... Read More
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This is a book read best with your mind open and analysis firmed switched off.
It is a beautifully crafted novel with profound insight and arguably one Hesse's finest works. I read this shortly after Narcissus and Goldmund and couldn't help feeling it was an extension of the Narzis (the spelling I knew) character.
It is insightful and spiritual without being dogmatic.
A highly recommended read to be followed by Rosshalde for a refreshing change of pace ... Read More
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The Glass Bead Game, Hesse's culminating work for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1946, expresses the author's view of life as a quest for intellectual and spiritual unity in an imperfect world. The tragic though rejuvenating story is told through a novel (biography of Joseph Knecht), followed by a collection of poems and three short stories, presented as the posthumous publication of Knecht's fictional writings during the student and scholar phases of his rapid ascent to the venerated post of ... Read More
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SPOILER WARNING!!! THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS!!!
So Magister Ludi drowns at the end of the story, in a cold mountain lake in Switzerland. A whole incomprehensible story about Abraxas and the Glass Bead Game FOR THAT????
I FEEL CHEATED!!!
And now, a weather forecast...
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Dewey Decimal Number: 833.912
EAN: 9780312278496
ISBN: 0312278497
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: December 06, 2002
Publisher: Picador
Studio: Picador