SOURCE: Durrani, Osman. “Herman Hesse's Castalia: Republic of Scholars or Police State.” The Modern Language Review 77 (1982): 653-69.
In the following essay, Durrani examines the fictional province of Castalia, which functions as the setting of Das Glasperlenspiel.
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