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The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

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Author Biography

Name: Hermann Hesse
Birth Date: June 2, 1877
Death Date: August 9, 1962
Place of Birth: Calw, Germany
Place of Death: Montagnola, Switzerland
Nationality: German
Gender: Male
Occupations: author

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Biography of Hermann Hesse
15714 words, approx. 52.4 pages
Only a few German writers of the twentieth century have enjoyed worldwide acclaim. Undisputably numbered among these are Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, and Hermann Hesse. Hesse's major works have been translated into some thirty-five languages...
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Biography of Hermann Hesse
14348 words, approx. 47.8 pages
Only a few German writers of the twentieth century have enjoyed worldwide acclaim. Undisputably numbered among these are Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, and Hermann Hesse. Hesse's major works have been translated into some thirty-five languages...
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Biography of Hermann Hesse
4896 words, approx. 16.3 pages
Hermann Hesse, the most widely translated German author of the twentieth century, authored what he liked to call "biographies of the soul." Though many of his best-known works were novels, they were largely autobiographical, and centered recurrently on o...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Glass Bead Game Information
1,765 words, approx. 6 pages
The Glass Bead Game (German: Das Glasperlenspiel) is the last work and magnum opus of the German author Hermann Hesse. Begun in 1931 and published in Switzerland in 1943, the book was mentioned in Hesse's citation for the 1946 Nobel Prize for...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
Meeting of the Minds; Hermann Hesse's Glass Bead Game Hits the Net
09/27/1996: 2,305 words, approx. 8 pages
Caroline Kenner is one of the few to have played the Glass Bead Game. Just before Halloween a year ago, the Silver Spring bibliophile and publicist opened her on-line match of ricocheting intellects by evoking the holiday spirit. She made her first move...
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The Independent - London
Class bead game
03/29/1997: 721 words, approx. 2 pages
Pared down minimalism has had its day. Last year a slip-dress had to be simple and unadorned , worn with natural make-up, and no jewellery. Now the same dress is likely to be scattered with tiny sparkling beads, accessorized with a beaded necklace, and...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Osman Durrani
8,777 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Durrani examines the fictional province of Castalia, which functions as the setting of Das Glasperlenspiel.
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Critical Essay by I. A. White and J. J. White
8,076 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, White and White investigate the function of the three appended biographies at the end of Das Glasperlenspiel.
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Critical Essay by John Krapp
7,549 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Krapp discusses the influence of Hegaelian ideas in most of Hesse's works, specifically in The Glass Bead Game.
 


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