The glass bead game
(Magister Ludi)
by Hermann Hesse
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Hesse’s most highly acclaimed book, The Glass Bead Game is set in a fictional state in Central Europe in the 25th Century. The state of Castalia is the home of an austere order of intellectuals who run a group of boarding schools for boys but also make it their life’s work to extend their knowledge and prowess of the Glass Bead Game, a mysterious game whose rules are never revealed. The story chronicles the life of Magister Ludi, the man responsible for administering the game. Although educated in Castalia he has spent a significant length of time in the outside world and as he reflects on his experiences in China and elsewhere he begins to doubt the value of the introverted life he and his fellow masters are leading.
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Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Psychological games, Fiction, Enlightenment (Buddhism), Spiritual formation, Scholars, Fictional Works Publication Type, German fiction, Manners and Customs, Philosophical fiction, German Science fiction, Germanic literature, Jeux psychologiques, Romans, nouvelles, Formation spirituelle, Illumination (Bouddhisme), German literature, Translations into EnglishTimes
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The glass bead game: (Magister Ludi)
2002, Picador USA
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- 1st Picador USA ed.
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Das Glasperlenspiel: Versuch einer Lebensbeschreibung des Magister Ludi Josef Knecht samt Knechts hinterlassenen Schriften herausgegeben von Hermann Hesse.
1973, Suhrkamp
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The glass bead game (Magister Ludi).
1969, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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