The Glass Bead Game (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover
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The Glass Bead Game is an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by the scholars, creamed off in childhood and nurtured in elite schools, in the province of Castalia. The Master of the Glass Bead Game, Joseph Knecht, holds the most exalted office in Castalia. He personifies the detachment, serenity and aesthetic vision which reward a life dedicated to perfection of the intellect. But can, indeed should, man live isolated from hunger, family, children, women, in a perfect world where passions are tamed by meditation, where academic discipline and order are paramount? This is Herman Hesse’s great novel. It is a major contribution to contemporary philosophic literature and has a powerful vision of universality, the inner unity of man’s cultural ideals and his search for personal perfection and social responsibility.
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Review
"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)
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Hermann Hesse's magnum opus and a twentieth-century classic
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0140034382
- ISBN 13 9780140034387
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages520
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