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About the product Throughout his entire creative career, Hesse was occupied with reflections on the fate of the world, art and civilization. The writer began working on his main novel «The Glass Bead Game» a couple of years before the Nazis came to power, published it in 1943, the turning point of World War II, and in 1946 received the Nobel Prize for it. In this «joyfully mysterious book» by Thomas Mann’s definition, written in an atmosphere of general militarization and barbarism, Hesse asks the main question — how to save the person and the spirituality in the period of the collapse of culture and the general decline in morality? Not trying to portray the realities of a global catastrophe, he proposed his own path — escape from society, escape to the world of «pure art» and the search for «eternal truth», to the beautiful fictional country of Castalia, where the intellectual elite of the future selflessly indulges in the Glass Bead Game. construction, interweaving of many genre forms, a wealth of symbolism, terms and concepts from various areas of culture, the novel was not understood and accepted by everyone, but immediately gave rise to heated discussions and became a spiritual guide for entire generations around the world. The publication also includes the allegorical story «Journey to the Land of the East».
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