5/26/2023 0 Comments Hesse the glass bead game![]() ![]() 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. 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. After his first novel Peter Camenzind was published in 1904, he devoted himself to writing. 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. Many an old university, many a lodge, and especially the age-old League of Journeyers to the East, turned to it. Hermann Hesse was born in Calw, Württemberg, in 1877. The Glass Bead Game, formerly the specialized entertainment of mathematicians in one era, philologists or musicians in another era, now more and more cast its spell upon all true intellectuals. ![]()
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