The Glass Bead Game. Journey to the Land of the East
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The Glass Bead Game. Journey to the Land of the East
14.99 €
Throughout his career, Hesse was occupied with reflections on the fate of the world, art and civilization. The writer began working on his main novel "The Bead Game" a couple of years before the Nazis came to power, published it in 1943 - a crucial year of World War II, and in 1946, received the Nobel Prize for it. In this according to Thomas Mann's definition "joyful and mysterious book", written in an atmosphere of general militarization and barbarism, Hesse asks the main question - how to save the personality and spirituality in the period of the collapse of culture and the general decline of morality?
Without striving to depict the realities of the world catastrophe, he proposed his own way - escape from society, escape into the world of "pure art" and the search for "eternal truth", in the beautiful fictional country of Castalia, where the intellectual elite of the future selflessly indulges in the Game of Beads. Because of the complexity of construction, the interweaving of many genre forms, the richness of symbolism, terms and concepts from a variety of cultural fields, the novel was not understood and accepted by everyone, but immediately generated heated discussions and became a spiritual reference point for generations around the world. The edition also includes the allegorical story "Journey to the Land of the East".
Without striving to depict the realities of the world catastrophe, he proposed his own way - escape from society, escape into the world of "pure art" and the search for "eternal truth", in the beautiful fictional country of Castalia, where the intellectual elite of the future selflessly indulges in the Game of Beads. Because of the complexity of construction, the interweaving of many genre forms, the richness of symbolism, terms and concepts from a variety of cultural fields, the novel was not understood and accepted by everyone, but immediately generated heated discussions and became a spiritual reference point for generations around the world. The edition also includes the allegorical story "Journey to the Land of the East".
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