Last night I finally finished reading ‘Das Glasperlenspiel’ by Hermann Hesse. This enormous 600 page book, which English readers may know in translation as either ‘The Glass Bead Game’ or ‘Magister Ludi’, has taken me a little over two months to get to finish. That said, I have chiefly been reading it only at weekends, and I have deliberately been reading slowly in order to get as much as possible out of the German. (more…)