Glass Bead Game

Author(s): Hermann Hesse

FICTION

"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."


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780099283621
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : July 1999
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Hermann Hesse
  • : Paperback
  • : 01/09/
  • : 530