![]() ![]() Everybody, however, acknowledges the serene organizational superiority of music and mathematics as the sole pathways to a comprehensive celestial harmony.Įach specialized discipline of the humanities inside Castalia is ruled by a master ( magister), who is elected by the community itself as a sign of collective respect and in recognition of his spiritual excellence. Its inhabitants belong to a highly respected male elite, governed by the strict laws of willingly obeyed intellectual hierarchies that reflect the main disciplines of the humanities. The author’s portrait of an ideal geography envisions a cloistered, spiritual province, Castalia, flourishing unharmed and protected from the vicissitudes of everyday history and politics within the borders of a wider state or nation. The English translation by Richard and Clara Winston appeared in 1969. ![]() The last novel by the Swiss German author Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), The Glass Bead Game is a serene bildungsroman conceived in the form of a “eutopia” (positive, happy utopia) set in the year 2200, somewhere in the German-speaking areas of Europe. Analysis of Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game ![]()
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