Glass marbles game

The events of the novel take place in the year 2400 and depict the human world as it is believed it should be in the future, and in the novel, there are references to Buddhist philosophy as in several of Hesse's other works. "I learned from music that the most wonderful part of intellectual work is the seconds in which the musical phrase ends and a new phrase begins. In these seconds, all the structure of the workers is concentrated, and the composer places the secrets of artistic perfection in his mind without disclosure or directness. The listener stands before him, senses heightened, contemplating what has passed, waiting for what is to come." These words are part of the message Hermann Hesse delivered when he received the Nobel Prize in 1946, and his novel "The Glass Bead Game" was his last work, after which he lived more than fifteen years without approaching the writing desk. "I think I have dried up; I have put the essence of my art into the beads." In "The Glass Bead Game," Hermann Hesse governs the form of the novel and cares for style and details, and the relationship between the written sentence and the musical note becomes the secret of the secrets of the artistic work. It is above the form and content of the novel because it is what unites all parts of the work of art... and it reveals the secrets of art without revealing them, indicating its deep depths in flashes like lightning in a cloudy sky. It has happened in the history of literature and writing that a generation of great writers realized that writing is an art of wisdom, which Hermann Hesse adopted and marked throughout his life.