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- Published on: 2000-07-06
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- Sales Rank: #456984 in Books
- Published on: 2000-07-06
- Original language:
English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.80″ h x
5.08″ w x
.0″ l,
.0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 544 pages
In the remote Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game. The elaborately coded game is a fusion of all human knowledge – of maths, music, philosophy, science, and art. Intrigued as a school boy, Joseph Knecht becomes consumed with mastering the game as an adult. As Knecht fulfils his life-long quest he must contend with unexpected dilemmas and the longing for a life beyond the ivory tower.
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233 of 244 people found the following review helpful.
Hesse’s Best
By Tony Theil
When in my 30s, after having read several of Hesse’s novels, I attempted to read The Glass Bead Game. I couldn’t get past the first 50 pages. I was unprepared to accept Hesse as a humourist and satirist. Now, approaching 60 and having learned not to take life or Hesse so seriously, I thoroughly enjoyed the book and consider it Hesse’s greatest. A mature Hesse, who understood life’s ironies, wrote The Glass Bead Game for a mature audience, who could laugh at life’s ambiguities.The Glass Bead Game is comprised of a novel, 13 poems, and 3 short stories. I think the reader would enjoy the novel more by reading the book in reverse order, starting with the three short stories: The Rainmaker, The Father Confessor, and The Indian Life. The underlying theme of the stories is that the forfeiture of self, or self-interest, leads to redemption or an awakening.The poems superbly unite the novel’s cultural, spiritual, and mental perspectives. Hesse’s best known poem “Stages” is included. Here’s a four line excerpt:”If we accept a home of our making,Familiar habit makes for indolence.We must prepare for parting and leave-takingOr else remain the slaves of permanence.”The novel is set in the future and located in the sequestered province of Castalia. This is a world of academia that consists of theory, analysis, interpretation, and debate – all elements of “the game”. Absent from Castalia are action, creativity, originality, and experiment.The protaganist, Joesph Knecht is raised in this culture. He also lived at a couple of subcultures outside Castalia. At Bamboo Grove, under Elder Brother’s tutelage he learned to meditate, play I-Ching, read Chuang Tzu, and learn Chinese studies. (All this self absorption without gazing at his navel; instead, he stared at the carp.) Later at a Benedictine monastery he was the guest of Father Jacobus, with whom he discussed politics, religion, philosophy, music, and history. Knecht learned everything to play “the game” and was elevated to the role of Magister Ludi. But his knowledge went unapplied beyond Castalia.Even those within Castalia were not immune to mid-life crisis. Knecht, while in his 50s is impacted by the words in “Stages”:”Serenely let us move to distant placesAnd let no sentiments of home detain us.The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain usBut lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces.”Anyone who has made a break from the routine will enjoy The Glass Bead Game.
102 of 105 people found the following review helpful.
Challenging, but beautifully visionary
By Brian Sharp
First: From a prose point of view, I found the first 50 to 100 pages of this translation to be very difficult going. More astute readers would probably pick up on the subtle humor (Ziolkowski mentions it in his introduction) but I found it dry and tough going. I mention this because I’ve run into a number of people who say, “I really wanted to like it, but I couldn’t even make it past the first 50 pages!” If you find this to be the case, just grin and bear it: Know that after the first 100 pages the book picks up considerably in pace.I won’t comment on the book’s philosophical corollaries or references, since others better versed in such things have already done so, better than I could.Rather, one of the aspects of the book that I found particularly compelling is the Game itself and the ideas behind it.The Glass Bead Game, as Hesse describes it, is a meditation, seemingly both competitive and collaborative, on different fields of knowledge, where the point is to take concepts from otherwise disparate disciplines and associate them in creative, profound ways — finding a pattern shared rhythmically by a piece of Baroque music and spatially by ancient Chinese architecture, say.An observation I’ve made over time is that of all the people I know, those that I would say are possessed by genius all share a common trait, the ability, to use the cliche, to “Think Outside the Box.” To realize new, previously unseen associations between things is a quality of a great mind, and here Hesse acknowledges the value of this talent, elevating it even to an artform (though I suppose the Castalian players in the novel would firmly call it “post-art”.)The analogy I make is to 2D math: Consider a point in space, represented in either Cartesian or polar coordinates. Each representation is as valid as the other, but each representation, makes different analyses easier and others harder.Another good analogy is the Windows 98/2000/XP explorer window: the window displays a list of files, with a number of columns of various information. You can click a column header to sort the list by that information. A given sort makes certain things easier, and others harder. If I sort by file size, I can easily find the largest file. If I sort by name, I can easily find a file beginning with the letter ‘C’.The idea of the Game is, essentially, to find different “sort columns” — to find different ways to slice knowledge to compare it and examine it and learn from it.The fascination of *Glass Bead Game* was that, for me, it began to formalize the idea of meta-knowledge — that is, how we think about what we know. There’s probably tons of psychology literature about this phenomenon, learning theory, or whatnot, but Hesse manages to incorporate it not into a dissertation on the Game, but on a decidedly artistic book that revolves around the Game. What talent, to so eloquently present such a profound idea as merely one aspect of a larger work of art!It took me about a month to read this entire book, consistently reading twenty or thirty pages a night. When I finished, I found that some nights I’d get so caught up thinking about the book and its implications and possibilities that I’d be unable to fall asleep.Rarely do I have the opportunity to read something so compelling!
61 of 64 people found the following review helpful.
Hesse’s Magnum Opus
By William Kostenko
This book is to Hesse as “The Brothers Karamazov” is to Dostoevsky. Throughout it are the same ideas that have been put forth in earlier works, often with similar characters, but with a fuller and more articulate expression than before. Like Dostoevsky, he finally figured out how to say *everything* he had to say in one volume. So it comes as no surprise that those only concerned with certain aspects (particularly the more spiritual ones) of Hesse’s writing would find it disjointed and tedious. If you want to read more of Hesse’s stories about tormented and/or confused souls looking for meaning in the world, this isn’t your book – go reread Damien and Steppenwolf. This book has that esoteric search, but its main character, Joseph Knecht, pursues this search as a curiousity and not out of some desperate need. I’m sure that’s why several people seem to find him lacking compared to other Hesse protagonists – they’re expecting a conflict in him that isn’t there.As I read these other reviews I find it fascinating that everyone seems to come away from the book with such different things that they were struck with. In my case, this was the socio-political commentary. Through this book, Hesse comments on our own time and on a fictional opposite to it, thoroughly exposing the flaws in both. I remember most distinctly Knecht’s letter of resignation from Magister Ludi, where he tells his colleagues that although they understand the importance of their society’s existence, they made the fatal mistake of not educating the people who support them. That they cannot take the existence of what they have for granted, for the day would eventually come when all they built would be dismantled. Perhaps this was because I read this book when I was in an institution that resembled much of what Hesse wrote about, and exactly when Congress cut the NEA.Reading this book changed my view of the world most in that it changed my expectations of it. More to the point, I abandoned my expectations. I am much more apt to let other people be themselves. To explain how or why would take far too long, suffice it to say that there is more to this book than a pursuit for spiritual meaning or a balance of intellectual and physical need, but also balance on many other levels, and Hesse explores all of them in his classic manner – first by their disparity, then by their eventual unity. A stunning conclusion to the career of one the greatest writers of all time.
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