Igra staklenim perlama
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- Author: Hesse Hermann
- Publisher: Liber
- Availability: Available
- Condition: Very good
- Code: 17125
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Igra staklenim perlama
Hesse Hermann
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Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game is often interpreted as a creation in the tradition of literary utopias and the German development novel. That work, however, is completely neither. Entwicklungs-roman, from Goethe's Wilhelm Meister to Mann's The Magic Game, focuses on the life experiences of a character designed in the spirit of individualism. His biographical path is conceived in such a way that it touches the widest possible area of human experience: social, erotic, scientific, artistic. The biography of Hesse's hero Josef Knecht, however, is based on a relatively narrow selection from the stock of experience. Instead of diversity in successes, conflicts, doubts and resolutions, a calm life flow, directed from the beginning to a tangible goal, largely reigns here. Therefore, Hesse's work ignores the liveliness of the events (which also appears in many modern novels as a relic of the traditional form of intrigue) in favor of a textual structure that adds a wealth of essayistic considerations to the descriptions and conversations. The game is a lyrical monument to a man who thinks and lives in the categories of the game, not in the categories of the modern commercialized world.
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- Author: Hesse Hermann
- Publisher: Liber
- Year of publication:1979
- Place of publication:Zagreb
- Pages:498
- Dimensions:13x21 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:Very good
- Binding:Hardcover with dust jacket
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