The Glass Bead Game

About “The Glass Bead Game”

Set in a fictional 25th-century Central European state, this novel follows Magister Ludi, the administrator of the mysterious Glass Bead Game, at the intellectual community of Castalia. Having spent time in the outside world, including China, he begins to doubt the value of the introverted life he and his fellow masters lead. Hermann Hesse's most highly acclaimed book, from 1943.