![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The American Scholar About the Author Hermann Hesse was born in Germany in 1877 and later became a citizen of Switzerland. a genre blend of science fiction, fantasy, and fictional biography, leavened with musicology, poetry, and Hesses unique swirl of Eastern and Western philosophy. 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, bing a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game). Book Synopsis 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. The most imaginative and prophetic of Hesses works. About the Book Setting his story in the distant, post-Holocaust future, Hesse tells of an elite cult of intellectuals occupying themselves with an elaborate game that employs all the cultural and scientific knowledge of the ages. ![]()
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