Timeline for In Hesse's The Glass Bead Game, what is the significance of the fugue?
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| Nov 11 at 18:31 | comment | added | Lambie | A fugue has two or three separate musical melodies or themes that are interwoven or have intertwining parts (voices). So, the book must have that as well in some way. It's a stand-in for plot complexity or interconnectedness... | |
| Nov 11 at 11:50 | comment | added | quarague | @Tsundoku Good point, I changed it to German speaking. | |
| Nov 11 at 11:50 | history | edited | quarague | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 11 at 11:19 | comment | added | Tsundoku | "people in Hesses time in Germany". The novel was published in 1943, not in Germany, because the Nazis didn't want it, but in Switzerland. Hesse had acquired Swiss citizenship in 1923. | |
| Nov 11 at 9:29 | history | answered | quarague | CC BY-SA 4.0 |