Struggling for Identity, by “The Glass Bead Game” by Hermann Hesse Cover Image

Das Ringen um Individualität in Einer Vom Kollektiv Bestimmten Zeit. Hermann Hesses Das Glasperlenspiel
Struggling for Identity, by “The Glass Bead Game” by Hermann Hesse

Author(s): Monika Wolting
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), German Literature, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Uniwersytet Jana Długosza w Częstochowie
Keywords: Intellectual; exile research; disturbance; Hermann Hesse;

Summary/Abstract: This article puts emphasis on the question about the intellectual function and intellectual commitment of the narrator in “The Glass Bead Game” by Hermann Hesse. Performing in the sense of a society, to struggle for its maintaining and improvement, that´s of major importance in the function of the narrator in a way of We-Telling in the novel by Hesse.

  • Issue Year: XIII/2017
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 9-20
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: German