The glass bead game

Name: The glass bead game
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Hesse, Hermann

Autor: Hermann Hesse

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“A novel that achieves a rare feat: being both universal and timeless.” - The New York Times Books review.

What was this "The Glass Bead Game," the basis of Hermann Hesse's last novel, published in 1943? Its title, Das Glasperlenspiel, literally "The Game of Glass Pearls," refers to a playful, yet purely intellectual, activity whose roots can be traced originally to the thought of Pythagoras, reborn in the gnosis and hermetic humanism of the Renaissance, with echoes in Descartes and Leibniz. The name of the game originated from the fact that Bastian Perrot, a music theorist, used glass beads or pearls instead of graphic symbols in the notation of melodies. This novel describes a mythical community in which intellectuals dedicated to music, astronomy, and mathematics delight in the practice of a complex and exquisite playful activity, the ultimate avatar of a culture. The players sought to create a secret, universal language that would express, like a symbolic algebra, the quintessence of knowledge, similar to the dreams of ancient sages.

The action takes place in 2200, in the utopian community of scholars gathered in Castalia. According to scholars of Hesse's work, the hero Joseph Servo and his fictional autobiography represent the life the author would have envisioned. He is tasked with teaching the Benedictine monks the game of glass beads, as the secular order he represents should establish relations with the religious order led by Father Jacobus, a historian. Through him, Servo, acting as magister ludi (master of the game), discovers the value of history, questions his universe, and rebels. Combining the wisdom of the West and the East, Hesse leads us in The Game of Glass Beads to a surprising conclusion in a work built on lessons from many masters.

ISBN	978-850-111-987-2
Tradutor	Lavinia Abranches Viotti, Flávio Vieira de Souza
Altura	230 mm
Largura	155 mm
Profundidade	28 mm
Lançamento	10/08/2020
Páginas	504

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Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962) nasceu na Alemanha, e naturalizou-se suíço em 1923. Contista, poeta, ensaísta e editor de importantes obras da literatura alemã, o escritor foi um adversário declarado do nazismo, e se posicionou firmemente contra a ascensão desta ditadura por meio de artigos publicados naquela época. Em 1911, viajou para a Índia a fim de conhecer a vida no Extremo Oriente. Em seus textos, Hesse procurou se manter fiel às tradições literárias românticas e clássicas. É autor, entre outros livros, de O jogo das contas de vidro, O lobo da estepe, Sonho de uma flauta e Narciso e Goldmund. Em 1946, Hermann Hesse ganhou o Prêmio Nobel de Literatura.

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