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3.5 stars. I have read several books by Hermann Hesse, and although I may never really completely satisfied with the endings, I enjoy the journey.
The Glass Bead Game is really a biography of a fictional character set in a fictional country and according to Hesse set in the future (25th century), Although, he does not describe this future at all, except to say after the age of terrible wars. The province of Castalia was set up an order of men (no women) to bring about an aristocracy of intellect ...more
The Glass Bead Game is really a biography of a fictional character set in a fictional country and according to Hesse set in the future (25th century), Although, he does not describe this future at all, except to say after the age of terrible wars. The province of Castalia was set up an order of men (no women) to bring about an aristocracy of intellect ...more
I read this in my senior year of high school for my class, Western Thought. I thought it was one of the most fascinating books I had ever read. It is a book I've thought about a lot and I've always intended to read it again.
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This is my favorite of the many Hesse novels I've read. It was perhaps the most intellectually stimulating, even as it served as a critique of intellectualism (if that makes any sense). The rarefied world of the masters of the Glass Bead Game, I recall, served as a warning not to become overly self-absorbed as I earnestly prepared to go off to college. I read the book a second time some years after college and still found the philosophy behind the book to be compelling. Perhaps I'll read it when
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