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The Glass Bead Game (German: Das Glasperlenspiel, pronounced [das ˈɡlaːspɛʁlənˌʃpiːl] ⓘ) is the last full-length novel by the German author Hermann Hesse. It was begun in 1931 in Switzerland , where it was published in 1943 after being rejected for publication in Germany due to Hesse's anti- Fascist views.
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The Glass Bead Game, final novel by Hermann Hesse, published in two volumes in 1943 in German as Das Glasperlenspiel and sometimes translated as Magister Ludi. The book is an intricate bildungsroman about humanity’s eternal quest for enlightenment and for synthesis of the intellectual and the active life. Set in the 23rd century, the novel ...
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Jan 4, 1970 · Originally published in German in 1943 after almost a decade of arduous labor, very much the book of Hesse's old age, slow‐moving and laden with details, “The Glass Bead Game” was to be the...
First published January 1, 1943. Book details & editions. About the author. Hermann Hesse. 1,800 books17.1k followers. Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.
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The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi), Hesse’s last major work, was published in 1943. In this broad-ranging and very long book, which consists of several interconnected novels and novellas, Hesse continued to meditate upon the same themes of pacifism, Eastern religion, and the ultimate goal of self-knowledge and enlightenment.
Hermann Hesse’s novel The Glass Bead Game (or Das Glasperlenspiel), published in German in 1943 and translated into English in 1949, is Hesse’s last major work. Originally rejected for publication in the author’s native Germany due to his anti-Fascist views, it was originally published in neutral Switzerland instead.
Jan 29, 1997 · ISBN 0-8050-1246-x. $13.95. The Glass Bead Game, for which Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, was the author's last and crowning achievement, the most imaginative and prophetic of all his novels. It is the evolution - and resolution - of the terrors and dilemmas of Steppenwolf, Demian , and Siddhartha.
