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# The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi) Paperback – September 21, 2013

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## Customer Reviews

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    Within the  Cosmos of Ideas
  

*by G***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 29, 2020*

"The Glass Bead Game" reveals a distant galaxy within the Cosmos, a realm of thought adrift in the universe.Author Herman Hesse stirred this ancient mind when searching life's meaning as a newly arrived member, just entering onto the world stage, literally.Freedom of thought is a constant star sought for by the populations of the world, great and small, noted and insignificant. "The Glass Bead Game" challenges the reader to mount this distant plane page by page, paragraph by paragraph, sentence by sentence, thought by thought.A plateau of refuge for all who think, a respite for newcomers seeking the Everest of truth, found only in Jesus.Far down and away on the slippery slopes of reality, as a young man I stumbled upon Hesse on the Emerald Isle, where reality clashes head-on with the mortal mind, directing the temporal person to eternal vestiges unseen.Cleaving open the distant reaches of inter-communications, the author leads the way to the inner depths of connectivity intertwining the pursuits of all in journey of reason and the quest for peace.Hesse's greatest accomplishment is the discovery of mutuality from the heights of intellectual endeavor.  One finds a score in music, translated into mathematics, which in turn converts onto a canvas, then pummeled into a figure of clay, finding momentary rest in marble, only to be reflected through a poem, 'und so weiter'.Perhaps the most powerful moment reveals when one perceives arriving only at the edges of one galaxy within the ever-expanding universe of undiscovered space.Even half a century on, the look back is a dot on the map.  Man's frustrations announcing the ultimate truth in their unwitting anguished cries which can only be answered through Jesus Christ.And then the shock of hearing one's youngest, embedded in Bible School, requesting a copy of a book he's heard of called "The Glass Bead Game,"  thrusting one back through the decades to the night's in Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, hot tea and milk before a coal fire, soaking in "Siddhartha", with "The Glass Bead Game" awaiting at the side. Now these seeming eons gone by, new generations continue, also entering upon the world stage, moved to seek the capturing of thought within the cosmos of ideas.TL Farley,author,"Blast Off Rapiemur - IVth Edition" - I Thess. 4:17 - Jesus Speaks to the Rapture, the 1st Century proclamation and practice  to this very hour.

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    Recommended with reservations
  

*by R***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 23, 2011*

The Glass Bead Game is divided into four distinct parts.  Part 1, the general introduction to the game, is likely to be the least interesting to the general reader and may be skipped without concern that important information to understand the story will be lost.  Part 2 is the fictional biography of Jospeph Knecht, the Magister Ludi of the title of the novel.  As other reviewers have noted, the entertainment value of this biography is slight.  The story starts slowly with Knecht's childhood and education and then moves to the point in the middle of the novel where he is appointed Magister Ludi (teacher of the game).  I was interested in the various problems Knecht faced as Magister in the future world called Castalia.  Knecht slowly moves toward enlightenment and we watch his steady progress.  His journey becomes more interesting as he faces obstacles, not only with the ruling elite of Castalia, but also in himself.  Everyone recognizes that Knecht is an extraordinary human being, but he challenges the status quo and has genuine concerns about the future of Castalia that not everyone wants to hear.  The end of Knecht's story comes as an abrupt surprise to the reader.Joseph Knecht's poetry comprises Part 3 of the novel.  The poems help us to understand the inner life and world of Knecht and are useful in that regard.  The poems are worth reading even if they did not relate directly to the story.In Part 4, the final section of the book, Hesse gives us three long stories related to the novel.  Many readers will find these stories the most entertaining part of the novel.  In fact, another review suggests readers begin their reading of the novel with these stories - not a bad idea.  The stories are well told and genuinely interesting.  I read the poems along with the stories; some poems - Stages - I read several times.Summary: Many people will not get beyond the general introduction to The Glass Bead Game (Part 1); watching paint dry is how some readers have described it.  Joseph Knecht's story (Part 2) will interest those readers who love the work of Hermann Hesse and want to read his final novel, his crowning achievement, as some have called it.  I am in this category of readers and read with interest this final novel.  The poetry and short stories which complete the novel are genuinely entertaining and similar in style to much of Hesse's other work.  If the general reader starts at the end and enjoys the short stories and poetry, skips the general introduction, and then moves quickly through the early life of Joseph Knecht, reading The Glass Bead Game may be an enjoyable experience.

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    Shocking
  

*by A***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 2, 2020*

As we all get older and more jaded it’s not often we find ourselves truly shocked by a book. But this is one of them. I found myself uttering a few exclamatory words at the end - of a kind generally banned from public reviews!!Joseph Knecht is a supremely intelligent diligent and hard working student rising rapidly through the ranks of the elite Order. eventually achieving high rank and status as the Master of the Glass Bead Game.  The ultimate intellectual achievement in the minds of many. Though it’s very name suggests a mischievous ambiguity in the intentions of the author.The Order is an independent organisation outside ordinary life and politics devoted entirely to the life of the mind. Large. Powerful.  The story is Set some time in the future after a time of great crisis. No hint of modern technology. Almost monastic in its cold austerity. Empty rooms. Parchments. No women allowed. Male only. There is not much overt emphasis on the asexuality of it all. But it’s there as a factor.For Joseph the austere life of the mind is not enough. He sees its ultimate vacuity - and the inevitable fall of an Order becoming increasingly impotent and irrelevant. He yearns for more. Something simpler. More ‘real’. More vital. More significant.He plots his escape. And then ....

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