Philip Hensher

Man of mystery and mysticism

Hesse’s astonishing The Glass Bead Game, written over ten years of Nazi rule, is one of very few truly successful tranquil Utopias in fiction

issue 24 November 2018

  • Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow

    Gunnar Decker, translated from the German by Peter Lewis

    Harvard University Press, pp. 759

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