Besides Coltrane's seminal recording, Jordan was inspired by Hermann Hesse's 1943 Nobel prize-winning final novel, The Glass Bead Game. The title refers to a futuristic game designed to give players ...

The Glass Bead Game was Hesse’s final major work. While recognised in his own lifetime (winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946), he found a new generation of young readers after his death.

Discover 5 profound books by Hermann Hesse that explore identity, self-discovery, ... The Glass Bead Game (1943) Theme: Intellectualism, Legacy & the Limits of Detachment.

Hermann Hesse and Jesuit higher education. ... The Glass Bead Game gathered dust on my college bookshelf. When I eventually read the book, I found it to be the story of Castalia, ...

The author of Steppenwolf, a bible for the '68 generation; Siddhartha, which influenced aspects of the New Age movement; and The Glass Bead Game, which is now inspiring game designers, Hermann ...

Siddhartha was Hesse’s ninth novel and was written in German. It was first published in the United States in 1951 and became especially popular during the counterculture revolution of the 1960s. In ...

TEHRAN – A Persian version of German author Hermann Hesse’s last full-length novel “The Glass Bead Game” has recently been released by Tehran Publications. Rendered into Persian by Mohammad Baqai, the ...

The Glass Bead Game was Hesse’s final major work. While recognised in his own lifetime (winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946), he found a new generation of young readers after his death.

The author of Steppenwolf, a bible for the '68 generation; Siddhartha, which influenced aspects of the New Age movement; and The Glass Bead Game, which is now inspiring game designers, Hermann ...