Bead game

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was a prominent German novelist, poet, essayist, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. His novels Demian, Siddhartha, Narcissus, and Goldmund were published by Folio. The Bead Game is Hermann Hesse's latest, final novel. The problem that worries the author is the fate of culture and the deep crisis of spirituality of the modern world. The separation of elite culture, its growing self-isolation leads to the loss of its creative spirit, to the rebirth of "culture" in "civilization". Today, these processes have intensified, which actualizes Hesse's novel and gives it the features of a kind of anti-utopia.