The scholars are sort of an entirely male monastic order, not unlike some of the economics departments until recently, and pride themselves on playing the Glass Bead Game. The book's title is an allusion to a game that scholars play in the fictional setting of Castalia, several centuries in the future. It took the ultimate end of philosophy, and literature, and even scientific studies, to its extreme conclusion and explored what a world like that would look like. It is one of the only works of fiction I have read that actually projects a potential future without it being explicitly utopian or dystopian. But after the war in 1946, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, with The Glass Bead Game getting a special mention. It was rejected for publication in Germany because Hesse wasn't fascist enough.
Herman Hesse, one of the great German writers of the 20th century, wrote the book, Das Glasperlenspiel, during the Second World War.
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