“If a famous painting changed owners, if a precious manuscript was sold at auction, if an old palace burned down, if the bearer of an aristocratic name was involved in a scandal, the readers of many thousands of feature articles at once learned the facts. What is more, on that same day or by the next day at the latest they received an additional dose of anecdotal, historical, psychological, erotic, and other stuff on the catchword of the moment.”

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“These games sprang from their deep need to close their eyes and flee from unsolved problems and anxious forebodings of doom into an imaginary world as innocuous as possible.”

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"These games sprang from their deep need to close their eyes and flee from unsolved problems and anxious forebodings of doom into an imaginary world as innocuous as possible." - The Hermetic Library Blog

These games sprang from their deep need to close their eyes and flee from unsolved problems and anxious forebodings of doom into an imaginary world as innocuous as possible. Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm (Full-Cast BBC with Derek Jacobi), Publisher, Local Library] No related posts.

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Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm (A Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisation, with Derek Jacobi), Publisher, Local Library] by Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game (the title Magister Ludi was an imposition of the first English translation) was Hesse’s final novel, separated from his penultimate one Journey to the East by over a decade. […]

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