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connorlangham 's review for:
The Glass Bead Game
by Hermann Hesse
The majority of this novel, the biography and story of Knect's life, is tedious, unnecessarily drawn out and without the sort of introspection and dissection that I love Hesse for. There are interesting passages with characters who change his worldview, but largely it's just too long.
The last two chapters on his life are great, the poems are fantastic and the 'lives', the three short stories at the end, are Hesse's magnum opus. All three are incredible and touch on different parts of his philosophy. They are worth the pain.
The last two chapters on his life are great, the poems are fantastic and the 'lives', the three short stories at the end, are Hesse's magnum opus. All three are incredible and touch on different parts of his philosophy. They are worth the pain.