Which German author wrote the novels 'The Glass Bead Game' and 'Siddharta'?
The Glass Bead Game The Glass Bead Game The Glass Bead Game () is the last full-length novel of the German author Hermann Hesse. It was begun in 1931 and published in Switzerland in 1943 after being rejected for publication in Germany due to Hesse's anti-Fascist views. A few years later, in 1946, Hesse went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. In honoring him in its Award Ceremony Speech, the Swedish Academy said that the novel "occupies a special position" in Hesse's work. "Glass Bead Game" is a literal translation of the German title, but the book has also been published under
The Glass Bead Game of his time. It became the "island of love" or at least an island of the spirit." Freedman opined that in the Glass Bead Game "contemplation, the secrets of the Chinese I Ching and Western mathematics and music fashioned the perennial conflicts of his life into a unifying design." In 2010, "The Glass Bead Game" was dramatised by Lavinia Greenlaw for BBC Radio 4. It starred Derek Jacobi as the Biographer, Tom Ferguson as Knecht and David Seddon as Plinio. Notes Bibliography The Glass Bead Game The Glass Bead Game () is the last full-length novel of the German author