by Hermann Hesse · tapa dura · ISBN 9788485471607
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The Glass Bead Game is a novel by German writer Hermann Hesse, published in 1943. The story takes place in a distant and utopian future, in the province of Castalia, where an intellectual order is dedicated to the Glass Bead Game, a discipline that combines all sciences and arts. The protagonist, Josef Knecht, is a brilliant player who rises in the hierarchy of the order, but who finally decides to abandon the contemplative life to seek a more direct connection with the world and reality.
Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-Swiss poet and novelist, and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. His interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions, combined with his involvement with Jungian analysis, helped shape his literary work. His best-known novels include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Narcissus and Goldmund, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge, and spirituality.
