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 ...

Rereading Hermann Hesse’s futuristic novel Das Glasperlenspiel (translated as Magister Ludi or The Glass Bead Game), I am struck by the character of the magister musicæ, the music master. This novel ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I n a sunlit courtyard in Montagnola, in the southern foothills of the Swiss Alps, German author and curator Regina Bucher is telling me about her lifelong fascination with Hermann Hesse. Regina ...

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 ...