num_pages: 558
description: In an unspecified future symbolic world of the twenty-third century, Joseph Knecht achieves and rejects his long-sought ideal of uniting thought and action in isolated Castalia, where scholar-players of the Glass Bead Game perpetuate all spiritual values, in a new edition of the Nobel laureate's final novel. Reprint.
language: English
title: The Glass Bead Game
titlecomplete: The Glass Bead Game
characters: Joseph Knecht
genres: German Literature, Literature, 20th Century, Fantasy, Philosophy, Novels, Fiction, Classics, Germany, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 37607
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Премія імені Максима Рильського, awardedAt: 1546329600000
name: Retro Hugo Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Henry Holt & Co