![]() ![]() Its residents engage in a life of the mind: basically, they study, teach, and play the Glass Bead Game. It takes place about 300 years in the future where there is a region, Castalia, that is removed from the rest of society. The plot and structure of The Glass Bead Game is heady, to say the least. Steppenwolf and Narcissus and Goldmund get readers a little bit further into what Hesse was about, but his magnum opus, The Glass Bead Game, is the deepest expression of his ideas, and it provides some insight on how artists can approach the issues we face in 2022. Siddhartha is an excellent book, but alone it gives a limited view of Hesse and the issues he explored in his fiction, many of which remain prescient today. ![]() His most famous novel, Siddhartha, is about the search for enlightenment set in the time of the Buddha, and has been widely read by anyone in the west who’s curious about eastern religions. Hermann Hesse, born July 2, 1877, might be best known today as that European author who wrote a lot about Buddhism. ![]()
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