Book · 1943 · Fiction
The Glass Bead Game
Picador USA (Macmillan) · 558 pages
★ 6.5 editorial score
Centuries from now, scholars in the cloistered province of Castalia play a game fusing music, mathematics, and all learning. Joseph Knecht rises to master it, then asks what the world outside is owed.
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1943Depicts The Future
