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The Glass Bead Game
by Hermann Hesse
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 intellectual pursuits. Elite schools are founded to 1. educate young men to be teachers and advisers to the rest of the country, 2 to play the Glass Bead Game. Although the Glass Bead Game is never really defined in the book fully. It seems to be paper and pencil game where multiple seemingly unconnected themes are brought together in harmony.
Only those students that have spent years studying can truly succeed at the game, sort of a Mensa Olympics.
The book focuses on Joseph Knecht, who thrives in this environment of the mind, and eventually because the master or Magister Ludi of the Game.
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 intellectual pursuits. Elite schools are founded to 1. educate young men to be teachers and advisers to the rest of the country, 2 to play the Glass Bead Game. Although the Glass Bead Game is never really defined in the book fully. It seems to be paper and pencil game where multiple seemingly unconnected themes are brought together in harmony.
Only those students that have spent years studying can truly succeed at the game, sort of a Mensa Olympics.
The book focuses on Joseph Knecht, who thrives in this environment of the mind, and eventually because the master or Magister Ludi of the Game.