The Glass Bead Game (Paperback)

Name: The Glass Bead Game (Paperback)
Brand: Totvsrj-record-dc
SKU: 9788577990030
Price: 49.90 BRL
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Autor: Hermann Hesse

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Sinopse

Novel by the great writer Hemann Hesse in pocket format.

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

What could this "The Glass Bead Game" be, the basis of Hermann Hesse's last novel, published in 1943? Its title, Das Glasperlenspiel , literally "The Glass Bead Game," refers to a playful, yet purely intellectual, activity whose roots can originally be traced 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, in the manner of 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, in The Glass Bead Game , 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 glass bead game, as the secular order he represents must 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 to a surprising conclusion in a work built on lessons from many masters.