CRITICISM

Antosik, Stanley. “Utopian Machines: Leibniz's ‘Computer’ and Hesse's Glass Bead Game.” Germanic Review 67, no. 1 (winter 1992): 35-45.

Antosik finds parallels between Hesse's and Wilhelm Leibniz's conceptions of utopian machines and assert that both bear “some striking similarities to the modern computer.”

Friedrichsmeyer, Erhard. “Hagiography and Humor in Hesse's Glasperlenspiel.” In Herman Hesse Heute, edited by Adrian Hsia, pp. 259-69. Bonn, Germany: Bouvier Verlag Herbert Grundmann, 1980.

Friedrichsmeyer finds humor in Das Glasperlenspiel.

Rath, Sura P. “The Narrative Structure of Play in Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game.” Connecticut Review 13, no. 2 (fall 1991): 77-84.

Rath argues that the glass bead game is integral to the “to the plot insofar as its rules help explain the myth that defines the life and death of Joseph Knecht” in The Glass Bead Game.

Seeger, Clara Elisabeth. “The Philosophy of History in Das Glasperlenspiel.” In Biography, Historiography, and the Philosophy of History in Hermann Hesse's ‘Die Morgenlandfahrt’ and ‘Das Glasperlenspiel,’ pp. 181-225. Stuttgart, Germany: Heinz, 1999.

Seeger explores the role of history in Das Glasperlenspiel.

Additional coverage of Hesse's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 43; Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Biography & Resources, Vol. 2; Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography, Vol. 2; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 17-18; Contemporary Authors Permanent Series, Vol. 2; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 17, 25, 69; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 66; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British Edition; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors and Novelists; DISCovering Authors 3.0; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; European Writers, Vol. 9; Exploring Novels; Literature and Its Times, Vol. 1; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Novels for Students, Vols. 6, 15; Reference Guide to World Literature, Eds. 2, 3; Short Story Criticism, Vols. 9, 49; Something About the Author, Vol. 50; Twayne's World Authors; and World Literature Criticism.