Little Manual for Players of the Glass Bead Game
Author : George Pennington
Publisher : Element Books Limited
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Contemplation
ISBN : 9780906540305
Author : George Pennington
Publisher : Element Books Limited
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Contemplation
ISBN : 9780906540305
Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2018-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781388217778
The Glass Bead Game is an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by the scholars, creamed off in childhood and nurtured in elite schools, in the province of Castalia. The Master of the Glass Bead Game, Joseph Knecht, holds the most exalted office in Castalia. He personifies the detachment, serenity and aesthetic vision which reward a life dedicated to perfection of the intellect. But can, indeed should, man live isolated from hunger, family, children, women, in a perfect world where passions are tamed by meditation, where academic discipline and order are paramount? This is Herman Hesse's great novel. It is a major contribution to contemporary philosophic literature and has a powerful vision of universality, the inner unity of man's cultural ideals and his search for personal perfection and social responsibility.
Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1466835303
Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special volume—filled with short, direct poems about love, death, loneliness, the seasons—that is imbued with some of the imagery and feeling of Hesse's novels but that has a clarity and resonance all its own, a sense of longing for love and for home that is both deceptively simple and deeply moving.
Author : Gene Wolfe
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250242681
Interlibrary Loan is the brilliant follow-up to A Borrowed Man: the final work of fiction from multi-award winner and national literary treasure Gene Wolfe. A 2021 Locus Award Finalist! Hundreds of years in the future our civilization is shrunk down but we go on. There is advanced technology, there are robots. And there are clones. E. A. Smithe is a borrowed person, his personality an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer. Smithe is a piece of property, not a legal human. As such, Smithe can be loaned to other branches. Which he is. Along with two fellow reclones, a cookbook and romance writer, they are shipped to Polly’s Cove, where Smithe meets a little girl who wants to save her mother, a father who is dead but perhaps not. And another E.A. Smithe... who definitely is. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Guerino Mazzola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3319644815
This is the third volume of the second edition of the now classic book “The Topos of Music”. The authors present gesture theory, including a gesture philosophy for music, the mathematics of gestures, concept architectures and software for musical gesture theory, the multiverse perspective which reveals the relationship between gesture theory and the string theory in theoretical physics, and applications of gesture theory to a number of musical themes, including counterpoint, modulation theory, free jazz, Hindustani music, and vocal gestures.
Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1583943137
This never-before-seen collection of poems offers the lyrical insights and spiritual wisdom of the Nobel Prize-winning author of Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, and The Glass Bead Game—who inspired millions as he forged cultural bridges between the East and West. Vowing at an early age “to be a poet or nothing at all,” Hermann Hesse rebelled against formal education, focusing on a rigorous program of independent study that included literature, philosophy, art, and history. One result of these efforts was a series of novels that became counterculture bibles that remain widely influential today. Another was a body of evocative spiritual poetry. Published for the first time in English, these vivid, probing short works reflect deeply on the challenges of life and provide a spiritual solace that transcends specific denominational hymns, prayers, and rituals. The Seasons of the Soul offers valuable guidance in poetic form for those longing for a more meaningful life, seeking a sense of homecoming in nature, in each stage of life, and in a renewed relationship with the divine. Extensive quotations from his prose introduce each theme addressed in the book: love, imagination, nature, the divine, and the passage of time. A foreword by Andrew Harvey reintroduces us to a figure about whom some may have believed everything had already been said. Thoughtful commentary throughout from translator Ludwig Max Fischer helps readers understand the poems within the context of Hesse’s life.
Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374500368
The hero recalls an unfruitful pilgrimage to the East during his youth and begins to realize its hidden spiritual meanings
Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466835125
Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely to scholarly and spiritual pursuits. One of his students is the sensual, restless Goldmund, who is immediately drawn to his teacher's fierce intellect and sense of discipline. When Narcissus persuades the young student that he is not meant for a life of self-denial, Goldmund sets off in pursuit of aesthetic and physical pleasures, a path that leads him to a final, unexpected reunion with Narcissus.
Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374181667
A child's heart.--Klein und Wagner.--Klingsor's last summer.
Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 2021-01-04
Category :
ISBN :
Siddhartha (first published in 1922) is a novel based on the early life of Buddha, inspired by the author's visit to India before the First World War. The novel is about the young Brahmin Siddhartha's search for self- realization. His quest takes him from a life of decadence to asceticism, from the illusory joys of sensual love with a beautiful courtesan, and of wealth and fame, to the painful struggles with his son and the ultimate wisdom of renunciation