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The Bead Game
Engel, Monroe | December 24, 1949 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Magister Ludi," by Hermann Hesse. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Hesse's altogether extraordinary novel is the gravity it allows to individual decisions. The community of the future that Hesse envisions, and that his hero of the novel, Joseph Knecht, ultimately rejects, is not a nightmare of the machine and atom but a society of the mind, the liberated intellect, and though it is also a kind of prison in which the captive spirit atrophies, it is none the less an angelic prison and, significantly, one its inmates are free to leave at will.

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MAGISTER Ludi (Book); BOOKS; HESSE, Hermann; DECISION making; INTELLECT; PSYCHOLOGY
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