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About This Novel

"The last knight of German Romanticism" and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Hesse's new 10-volume anthology, translated by famous writers, includes novels, short and medium-length works, poetry, prose, fairy tales and paintings, comprehensively displaying Hesse's creative career. The novel tells a story: In a future world, the glass bead game has become a symbol system evolved from music and mathematics, and is all human knowledge and spiritual wealth. Knecht was an orphan who was raised by a religious group. He was talented and intelligent. With his outstanding talents and superior organizational skills, he continued to rise in this elite group until he reached the top of the group and became a master of the glass bead game. But as he grew older, he gradually became dissatisfied with this isolated spiritual kingdom and felt that it was impossible to contribute to the people in this kind of ivory tower. So he came to the real world and tried to use education to improve the entire world. However, before his career was completed, he unfortunately drowned while swimming. "The Glass Bead Game" is the crystallization of the spiritual experience of the elderly Hesse looking back on his life. The work was written from 1931 to 1934, almost simultaneously with Hitler's rise to power and his demise. The author's goals are clear: "The first is to build a spiritual space that resists poisoning to protect my survival, and the second is to express the spiritual thoughts of rebelling against barbaric forces." After twelve years of hard work, the author used almost all literary means: poetry, aphorisms, letters, biographies, theories, etc., Which can be said to be everything in this novel, and various themes are both integrated and relatively independent in the book.

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