The Glass Bead Game
(Magister Ludi) A Novel
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4.1 • 38 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The Glass Bead Game, for which Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, is the author's last and crowning achievement, the most imaginative and prophetic of all his novels. Setting the story in the distant postapocalyptic future, Hesse tells of an elite cult of intellectuals who play an elaborate game that uses all the cultural and scientific knowledge of the Ages. The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature.
This edition features a Foreword by Theodore Ziolkowski that places the book in the full context of Hesse's thought.
Customer Reviews
Philosophical milestone.
This book is genius masterpiece of the 20th century.
Never seems to reach a meaningful point
Goes on and on about how this supposed game exists on every level of society, described in a vague and indeterminate sense. Never really reaches a meaningful point, I felt like I was being run in circles
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Flagship of 20th century literature