The glass bead game (Magister Ludi).
By: Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. With a foreword by Theodore Ziolkowski.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 558
Description: Set in the 23rd century, "The glass bead game" is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and scientific arts, such as mathematics, music, logic, and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game).
Notes: Translation of Das Glasperlenspiel.