_The Glass Bead Game_ , for which Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, is the author's last and crowning achievement, the most imaginative and prophetic of all his novels. Setting the story in the distant postapocalyptic future, Hesse tells of an elite cult of intellectuals who play an
Toward the Glass Bead Game: A Rhetorical Invention
β Scribed by J. W. Fost
- Book ID
- 125031773
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 261 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0024-094X
- DOI
- 10.2307/1577718
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