"The Glass Bead Game" by Hermann Hesse "The Glass Bead Game" depicts a future wherein all human knowledge — from mathematics to music, philosophy to poetry — can be woven together into elegant, ...

In Herman Hesse’s novel "The Glass Bead Game," published in 1943, a future Europe is controlled by only two powers, the players of that mysterious game that uses math and musicology to utilize ...

Also known as 'Magister Ludi', 'The Glass Bead Game' stands as Hesse’s final and most intellectually ambitious work. Set in the elite province of Castalia, a serene utopia devoted to scholarship and ...

I read Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game (1943) while studying at FTII, and it had a deep impact on me — I think it formed the basis of my thinking.

The next featured author is Hermann Hesse, the Tübingen bookseller who fled to Switzerland to escape Nazism. Displayed are photographs of The Glass Bead Game author with his father, and another of ...

Is Hermann Hesse’s philosophical fiction ready for a revival? Today’s society is beset by similar existential crises that haunted the German-Swiss novelist, writes William Cook.

Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse corresponded with each other for decades: Mann appreciated Hesse’s Steppenwolf and regarded The Glass Bead Game as being related to his own novel Doctor Faustus. In his ...