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2 unusual facts about The Glass Bead Game


Hilarion

Hermann Hesse adapted a biography of St. Hilarion as one of the three Lives of Joseph Knecht, making up his Nobel Prize winning novel The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi).

The Glass Bead Game

This Knecht has been born some dozen years after the Treaty of Rijswijk in the time of Eberhard Ludwig, and in depicting the other characters Hesse draws heavily on actual biographies: Friedrich Christoph Oetinger.


Glasperlenspiel Music Festival

The Glasperlenspiel Festival is inspired by Hermann Hesse's novel The Glass Bead Game, and its content is intended to present music from unusual angles, occasionally tied to a literary, religious, philosophical, esthetical or some other theme.

Rules and Meanings

Part Seven, "Provinces of Meaning", includes excerpts from C. W. M. Hart and Arnold R. Pilling's The Tiwi of North Australia, Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game, and Leo Sherley-Price's translation of the Little Flowers of St. Francis.


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