The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
by:
Hermann Hesse (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781466835023 (1466835028)
Publish date: December 6th 2002
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Pages no: 576
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Philosophy,
German Literature,
Dystopia,
Germany
I read this in German a long time ago (2002-06-15).I suppose it depends on whether working through the difficulty brings you genuine insights into the human condition. I'm ashamed to say I've only read one book on this list - Ulysses - and enjoyed it. I like modernism, and Joyce's Portrait of the Ar...
This book came into my hands some 20 years ago when I was around 20 and I tried reading it for at least 10 times. The first 100 pages kept me away from the book for a long time and once I was ready for it, once I was a bit more mature, I went into this Hesse's most amazing journey. This was the firs...
bookshelves: summer-2010, published-1943, philosophy, dystopian, nobel-laureate, germany, currently-reading, autumn-2014, re-visit-2014, classic, games-people-play, play-dramatisation Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from July 18 to 26, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** Re-VISIT 2014: Cannot refu...
This will be a re-read at some point. All I can really recall from my dim youth, when Hesse was very very popular, was the characters playing something that was like eleventy dimensional chess only with glass beads.
Dala bih joj 5/5 da nije suvoparnog uvoda. Možda još nisam sazrela za nju.
12 years ago
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