![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the book is still more than that, for it is in the broadest sense a human achievement, a testament to the intellectual health and vibrancy of our species. ![]() So sublime and so complete is his creation, that in my opinion it transcends literature to become simply an astounding artistic achievement, an example of what art can be, of what art ought to be. Its genius is not in its prose, but in the story and the fictional edifice that Hesse manages to erect. My “review” of this book will be short: The Glass Bead Game is an astounding literary achievement. Thus begins The Glass Bead Game, a sprawling and monumental work of fiction by the German writer Hermann Hesse. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born. Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. … For although in a certain sense and for light-minded persons non-existent things can be more easily and irresponsibly represented in words than existing things, for the serious and conscientious historian it is just the reverse. ![]()
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