Hermann Hesse Author:Edwin F. Casebeer The vision of Hermann Hesse stretches as far back as Siddhartha's quest for self- fulfillment...as far into the future as the 25th century, where Joseph Knect, the Magister Ludi, searches the intricacies of the Glass Bead Game for meaningful humane values. Hesse's world is as elemental as medieval Europe ravaged by the Black Plague, as modern Eu... more »rope exhausted by a world war...as fantastic as the hallucinatory Magic Theater in which Harry Haller seeks to free himself from the ominous shadow of the Steppenwolf.« less