This, from the novel: ' Only the weak are set out on paths without peril' has stayed with me for decades and often helped me grasp perspective and context.
very good summary - I appreciate - you could have mentioned the table of contents in the book, the introduction, Knecht's life, the poems and the three vitas - many readers find it difficult to read the long introduction and give up reading the book - they should start from the end - read first the vitas, read some peoms, then Knecht's life and then the introduction to read the book a second time, this time from the beginning !
I like your idea. I found those three short character studies at the end to be quite intriguing. Didn't fully understand all their nuances, but overall Glass Bead Game was outstanding. Seemed like a very modern novel, rather that something written four score years in the past.
Among the greatest of novelist, the themes of his books are often repeated in different settings. Narziss and Goldmund and Siddartha are my personal favorites.😊
I’ve loved Hesse for over 50 years. I reread him again and again. It’s amazing to see those themes not only repeat, but develop, when you read his works chronologically. My own personal favorites are Steppenwolf and The Glass Bead Game; among his early (pre-Demian) books, I have a great fondness for Roßhalde.
@@hoon_sol perhaps, and whilst it is beautifully written, it effectively is a long form version of all the ideas put forth in Siddhartha. I don't recall (though it has been a while) there being anything that different or novel laid out in TGBG. Still a good read and definitely it a lesson in world building.
@@hoon_sol that's quite a prescriptive and subjective view you're holding on to there and not something I think Knecht would have thought subscribed to.
Hesse doesn't clarify the most important question for his future world: How assets are owned and managed. Apart from that, the synthesis of music, math, and intellect is ... music. Writing music is playing the Glass Bead Game.
This, from the novel: ' Only the weak are set out on paths without peril' has stayed with me for decades and often helped me grasp perspective and context.
One of the great influences of my life and one of the reasons I left academia. Knecht by the way means servant.
very good summary - I appreciate - you could have mentioned the table of contents in the book, the introduction, Knecht's life, the poems and the three vitas - many readers find it difficult to read the long introduction and give up reading the book - they should start from the end - read first the vitas, read some peoms, then Knecht's life and then the introduction to read the book a second time, this time from the beginning !
I like your idea. I found those three short character studies at the end to be quite intriguing. Didn't fully understand all their nuances, but overall Glass Bead Game was outstanding. Seemed like a very modern novel, rather that something written four score years in the past.
Yes-especially love that story about being sent to fetch a ladle of water for the master
Among the greatest of novelist, the themes of his books are often repeated in different settings. Narziss and Goldmund and Siddartha are my personal favorites.😊
Hard to not see the similarities between Siddhartha leaving the palace and Knecht leaving the ivory towers of the intellectuals.
I’ve loved Hesse for over 50 years. I reread him again and again. It’s amazing to see those themes not only repeat, but develop, when you read his works chronologically. My own personal favorites are Steppenwolf and The Glass Bead Game; among his early (pre-Demian) books, I have a great fondness for Roßhalde.
One of the best books ever!
He wanted to re-Knecht with nature and drowned in a mountain lake lol.
He had just found his version of nirvana. It made me sad as a reader, but he died a contented man. Great book!
Germans are the greatest modern explorers of Consciousness and meaning of life.
Just read Siddhartha by Hesse. It's 50 million times shorter and ultimately carries the same message and story.
Or read both! They are that good.
A much too reductive claim that misses out on a lot of differences; but of course there are some very obvious similarities between the two.
@@hoon_sol perhaps, and whilst it is beautifully written, it effectively is a long form version of all the ideas put forth in Siddhartha. I don't recall (though it has been a while) there being anything that different or novel laid out in TGBG.
Still a good read and definitely it a lesson in world building.
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Repeating the same reductive claim doesn't make it less wrong.
@@hoon_sol that's quite a prescriptive and subjective view you're holding on to there and not something I think Knecht would have thought subscribed to.
Knecht-dis-connects to achieve greater connection.
This book is the reason why I left the Jesuit order as a young man.
The meaning I took from the book was that he veered from the path set out for him and the universe took him back to the source to be reincarnated.
Hesse doesn't clarify the most important question for his future world: How assets are owned and managed. Apart from that, the synthesis of music, math, and intellect is ... music. Writing music is playing the Glass Bead Game.
Came down here to make a -brilliant- weak pun on "Knecht."
Beaten to it, ithough.😕Two others already made the, uh, nexus.
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It's not a bad 3 minute summary, though.
Comments seem very real, and helpful, and touching