Glass Bead Game
Author(s): Hermann Hesse
"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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"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
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.372
- : 01 July 1999
- : 198mm X 129mm X 34mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Hermann Hesse
- : Paperback
- : 01/09/
- : en
- : 530