One character in this novel responds to an invitation with a note reading "It would be honorable to behold the great man. But movement leads to obstacles," making the author of the invitation come to him instead. This novel relates how a man seeks out the legendary Dion Pugil after he tires of people confessing all of their sins to him. This novel's protagonist writes that story about Josephus Famulus, "The Father Confessor," as well as stories about a powerless rainmaker and a prince turned yogi named Dasa in his Three Lives. The protagonist learns Chinese during his time in the Bamboo Grove, is recruited as a student by the Music Master, and goes to Waldzell, where
One character in this novel responds to an invitation with a note reading "It would be honorable to behold the great man. But movement leads to obstacles," making the author of the invitation come to him instead. This novel relates how a man seeks out the legendary Dion Pugil after he tires of people confessing all of their sins to him. This novel's protagonist writes that story about Josephus Famulus, "The Father Confessor," as well as stories about a powerless rainmaker and a prince turned yogi named Dasa in his Three Lives. The protagonist learns Chinese during his time in the Bamboo Grove, is recruited as a student by the Music Master, and goes to Waldzell, where he is so good at synthesizing aspects of all human learning that he earns the title Magister Ludi. For 10 points, name this bildungsroman about the intellectual Joseph Knecht, written by Hermann Hesse.
One character in this novel responds to an invitation with a note reading "It would be honorable to behold the great man.
The Glass Bead Game [or Das Glasperlenspiel; accept Magister Ludi before mentioned]