Hesse's The Glass Bead Game
1943 · Work
Hesse's last novel imagines an order of scholars in a future Castalia devoted to a game synthesising all knowledge; published in Switzerland, it leads to his Nobel Prize in 1946.
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- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)
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- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Apartheid (1948)