by Hermann Hesse · Uitg. De Bezige Bij · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789023432203
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«Het kralenspel» is the philosophical novel by Hermann Hesse published by De Bezige Bij in paperback, with 567 pages, in Dutch.
Fictional biography of Josef Knecht, a young man of humble origin who in the year 2200 joins an intellectual order dedicated to the Glass Bead Game, a system that synthesizes all arts and sciences. The novel contrasts the contemplative life with action in the world and closes with the posthumous writings attributed to the protagonist.
Original work «Das Glasperlenspiel», published in 1943; this 1991 Dutch edition contains the translation by Tine Ausma and Annemarie Houwink ten Cate.
For readers with command of Dutch who appreciate the philosophical novel and twentieth-century European classics.
Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-Swiss poet and novelist, and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. His interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions, combined with his involvement with Jungian analysis, helped shape his literary work. His best-known novels include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Narcissus and Goldmund, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge, and spirituality.
