The Glass Bead Game ( Das Glasperlenspiel ) was his last and consummate work.

His early novels were traditional, but with the publication in 1919 of Demian, a Freudian study of adolescence with Nietzschean emphasis on the superior individual, he became an 'uninhibited innovator.' Each of his later novels, including Steppenwolf, Siddhartha and Narcissus and Goldmund, was a step in Hesse's determined search for the self. Hesse was strongly influenced by his interest in music, the psychoanalytic theories of Jung and Eastern thought. The Glass Bead Game Paperback 1 September 2000 by Hermann Hesse (Author) 985 ratings Edition: 1st See all formats and editions Kindle 3.28 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 70.00 2 Used from 138.00 1 New from 70.00 Paperback 17.25 10 New from 17. In 1919, as a protest against German militarism in the First World War, Hesse moved back to Switzerland where he lived in self-imposed exile until his death at the age of eighty-five in 1962. Author Herman Hesse stirred this ancient mind when. After his first novel Peter Camenzind was published in 1904, he devoted himself to writing. The Glass Bead Game reveals a distant galaxy within the Cosmos, a realm of thought adrift in the universe. He intended to follow in his father's footsteps as a Protestant pastor and missionary, but rebelled against traditional academic education and instead worked for a while as a bookseller, antique dealer and mechanic. (Publisher) 15 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Set in the 23rd century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, which has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Hermann Hesse was born in Calw, Württemberg, in 1877. Hermann Hesse (Author), David Colacci (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc.

The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse