![]() ![]() What happens to these men and to the main character, Magister Ludi, makes for a novel of such striking contemporary application that the author at once stands alone, prophetic in his time. The story is set in some distant future.and Hesse tells of an elite cult of intellectuals, monastically removed from.society, occupying themselves with an elaborate game that employs all of the cultural and scientific knowledge of the ages. ![]() It is the evolution-and resolution-of the terrors and dilemmas of STEPPENWOLF, DEMIAN, and SIDDHARTHA.It becomes apparent that we cannot know Hesse without THE GLASS BEAD GAME, the most imaginative and prophetic of all his novels. This book has generally come to be known as his fullest expression and final position on the problems and responsibilities of the intellectual, on the illness and evils of alienation, and on the role of culture in any society. SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Hesse s magnum opus and his great Nobel Prize winning novel. ![]() 502 pp, A very good copy with mild wear to the extremities, primarily from shelving, some light evidence of age, the spine panel mellowed. 8vo, publisher's original green cloth, the spine decorated and lettered in gilt. First Edition issued in America, same time as the English printing. ![]()
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