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''The Glass Bead Game'' is a novel by German author [[Hermann Hesse]], winning him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. It concerns an orphan, Joseph Knecht, who rises through the ranks of the "Pedagogical Province" of Castalia, to become the Magister Ludi, the master of the aforementioned game. |
''The Glass Bead Game'' is a novel by German author [[Hermann Hesse]], winning him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. It concerns an orphan, Joseph Knecht, who rises through the ranks of the "Pedagogical Province" of Castalia, to become the Magister Ludi, the master of the aforementioned game. |
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* [[All Work vs. All Play]]: The conflict between an active life and a life devoted to abstract intellectual pursuits is one of the central themes of the novel. |
* [[All Work vs. All Play]]: The conflict between an active life and a life devoted to abstract intellectual pursuits is one of the central themes of the novel. |
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* [[Artifact Title]]: The title game is an in-universe example of this trope. An early version of this game used a complex bead frame as the notational instrument, so this name stuck, even after the bead frame was replaced by a more practical handwritten notation. |
* [[Artifact Title]]: The title game is an in-universe example of this trope. An early version of this game used a complex bead frame as the notational instrument, so this name stuck, even after the bead frame was replaced by a more practical handwritten notation. |
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