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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A Utopian fantasy of a world run as a game something like chess, something like fugue. Musicology is described as one of the few lasting contributions of our time. (Bob Copeland) 1   AMS_musicology | Aug 27, 2009 |  It has been decades since I last read this book. It pulled me in again. When I'm not actually reading I see a lot of problems with it - first and foremost, of course, that women aren't real people in it. The whole idea of the game is unrealistic ... But when you are reading, none of this matters. (  ) MarthaJeanne | Aug 8, 2009 | Not Hesse's best work, but still thought-provoking. (  ) Katya0133 | Jul 12, 2009 | Glassperlenspiel - a Masterpiece by any meaning. Difficult to read though, not an easy lecture for a sunny Sunday morning. Reading it is worth though... it's all about INITIATION, a fascinating game of becoming. Very different of everything else Hesse created, a very complex work of a guy who's always fought against the common education. (  ) Myhi | Jul 2, 2009 | If Hesse meant this book to lack the warmth and intensity of Siddhartha then he succeeded though he does introduce a subtle counterpoint given that both the main characters of these two novels perform meditation. The crucial point of his intended message would appear to be emphatically driven home in the protagonist's three short stories which appear at the end, especially the first of these. The conclusion was definitely worth the sometimes meandering read to get there. Austere and rarified, without being overly obtuse or dense, it's style reflects the atmosphere in the upper echelons of his intellectual nation. ( ) syllabub | Dec 18, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0312278497, Paperback)The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature Set in the 23rd century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and scientific arts, such as mathematics, music, logic, and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game). (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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