Glasperlenspiel is divided into two volumes, which consists of Glasperlenspiel's brief introduction to its historical development, The Biography of Yue Se Nuuk, a Pearl Opera Master, and The Legacy of John Nuuk. The structure of the novel is very clear, but the content of the whole novel is based on the glass bead play, which is woven with complex lines and faces, which makes me sigh that the author's thinking and imagination are interesting, rich, meticulous and profound. Because the main body and theme of the novel are concentrated in The Biography of Yue Se Nuuk, the director of Pearl Opera, my understanding and feelings about this book also started from here.
The significance of glass bead play
At the beginning of reading Glasperlenspiel, I asked, "What is Glasperlenspiel?" Halfway through it, I gradually got a glimpse of its essence. With the deepening of reading, I suddenly realized that the original glass bead play is a highly abstract and pure spiritual art invented by the author. "The essence of glass bead drama is to regard contradiction as contradiction first, and then regard contradiction as unity of opposites." It tries to cover everything in the form of mathematics, the essence of music, supplemented by meditation, "focusing on a central concept, with symmetry and viewpoint." It is a fact that readers evaluate Hesse as a great explorer of human mind. However, Hesse's tendency to pursue the spiritual world of human beings actually stems from the fact that Germany where Hesse lived at that time was shrouded in the shadow of war and the brutality and arrogance of the Nazis. The fragmentation of real life increased his anxiety and anxiety, and at the same time he turned to his heart to think and ask questions. He was forced to leave his motherland because he advocated peace. This novel was completed in 1943 and was not published in Germany.
The life course of Yue Se Nuuk—
Three Castalia-style appeals influenced his two important figures and a real awakening.
First of all, let's talk about three phone calls from Knouk. Calling means feeling calling and understanding the voice and guidance of the spiritual world. It's kind of destiny takes a hand's meaning for Nick. First of all, under the guidance of a music tutor, Knuck began to tend to the mystery and sacredness of his spiritual world in the music world full of charm and magic, animated by the change of tone and the jump of notes, and gradually eliminated his inner confusion. It seems that there is a force that urges him to leave the phenomenon world here and go to the new world of elite schools. This is the first step. Then he went through the painstaking research in Waltz and the exploration and research on the dramatic significance of glass beads in the free years. Inspired by the church organization for the second time, he confirmed the hidden meaning of his name Knuck-servant. Nuuk got the last and highest inspiration and was appointed as the instructor of Pearl Opera. It can be said that he has gone through every stage of his life step by step, and he is listening to his inner voice, so that it seems so natural and natural. From students to tutors, from childishness to maturity, from confusion to thorough understanding, from small individuals to the essence of the universe, he has embarked on a quiet road from the dangerous Vientiane world. However, in this long journey, he also suffered many inner struggles and ideological torture. The most dangerous thing is that he has doubts about the organization and operation of Castell and the value of the glass bead drama. This doubt comes from several encounters with his secular friend Prineo and what he saw and heard during the Fairy. His ambivalence about the glass bead drama likes and dislikes has been haunting him, which is why he finally left.
Secondly, I want to talk about two important figures in Knouk's life. In fact, we should also put music instructors in them, but the influence of music instructors is different from that of Father Plinyo and Joe Cobbs. The former makes Knuck tend to awaken internally, while the latter leads Knuck to go outside. First of all, Prinieo is also studying in an elite school, but only temporarily. He will eventually return to the secular world. The friendship between him and Knouk also experienced a tortuous process of conflict-reconciliation-rift-reconciliation because of different ideologies. Compared with Nick as the representative of soul and mind, his position is on the side of natural life. They seem to be the opposite of contradictions, reflecting the "ancient contradiction between ethics and aesthetics", the mutual contempt between secular and church, the separation of matter and spirit, and the rift between nature and soul, but the contradiction is not absolute and irreconcilable. Only through mutual understanding and understanding-"trying to integrate the two opposing principles and act as an interpreter, interpreter and arbiter between them" can we seek unity in opposition, and Plinyo and Knuck finally reach unity by shaking hands. In addition, Plinyo also built a bridge to the secular life for Nuuk. Nuuk gave Plinyo calmness, composure, peace, harmony and order, and Plinyo brought him the reality of pain and suffering tortured by desire and longing. What they want from each other is the neutralization and complementarity of yin and yang. Secondly, if Prinieo brought him all kinds of human phenomena that can be directly felt, then Father Yorkbers taught him the methods of explaining phenomena, finding laws and speculating the possibility of the future, that is, by studying history. He attached importance to history, especially in his sincere complaint letter before leaving his post. He analyzed the reason why castelli was founded from a historical perspective-the destruction and destruction of war made the whole society in immoral, disorderly chaos and barbarism. "At that time, anti-intellectualism and animalism were everywhere, and there were obvious barriers and incompatibilities everywhere ... There were battles, killings and destruction everywhere, and both sides said that they were doing justice for heaven. It is said that the devil is fighting for God ",(we can also see the author's attitude towards the war), which further illustrates Kastari's efforts to restore order and thirst for truth after the war and its glory and glory in peacetime, and further predicts the fate that Kastari began to decline and was doomed to disappear from history. "Beauty, even if it transcends everything, is just like anything else. Once it becomes a historical phenomenon on the earth, it will be eliminated ... This is an unchangeable law. He realized that "we are also a part of history and a product of growth. Since we are history, we must share the responsibility for world history and our status. "It can be said that the priest's influence on him is very important, which makes him have a new understanding and interpretation of all sentient beings and natural things in the long river of history, their eternity and illusion, and the truth and mystery of the universe." Through the inner stream of consciousness, he realized the meaningful and illusory rotation between teachers and students, the mutual pursuit of youth and wisdom, and this endless alternating game is the symbol of Kastari. In fact, it is the whole game of life, divided into young and old, day and night, yin and yang, and so on. "
Finally, let's talk about Knouk's real awakening. In his life, he experienced a lot of awakening of great or small significance. I only choose one of them, which is his great leap from Casterly Rock to secular life. "Not everyone can breathe and eat abstract concepts all his life without doing anything else. Abstract symbols are beautiful things, but when he was born, he had to breathe air and eat something. " From pure aesthetics to realistic ethics, he needs a leap from spirit to material. "Only the whole life synthesized by matter and spirit is a dynamic phenomenon." Obviously, the life in Castdari style is incomplete. As his poem "Stage (Transcendence)" said, "Every beginning contains a kind of magic ... Heart, that's it: keep saying goodbye and farewell." His life should be "an endless transcendence, a kind of progress, going through one stage after another, crossing one boundary after another, never getting tired, never taking a nap, always awake, always in the present". Knuck extended from the center of personality to the center of the world, respected himself, returned to nature, enjoyed freedom and achieved perfection, and finally stopped his struggle in Lake Bilpan.
Many reference books-balance of yin and yang
In this book, the author has repeatedly mentioned the Book of Changes and its divination, Zhuangzi's philosophical thoughts, the pastoral hermit life of Taoist priests in bamboo forests, and Nuuk's keen interest in China's ancient philosophical works and Confucian spirit. As far as Knouk's glass bead play is concerned, one of his practice methods is meditation and closed meditation. It is also through this mysterious "practice" way of the East that Knouk is inspired, enlightened and awakened from the depths of his heart again and again, and he will always maintain a respectable calm, gentle, calm and even detached expression. "We understand in an instant, just like kissing with real samadhi eyes."
It is particularly obvious that in the article Two Extremes, two extremes symbolize two opposite tendencies in a person's personality, namely Yin and Yang in the Book of Changes. For most people, these two tendencies are in an unbalanced state, either biased towards the yin side or more important than the yang side, while Knouk's two extremes-"on the one hand, he is loyal to him without reservation. Hesse has repeatedly mentioned this ancient, mysterious and profound knowledge of love of wisdom, which stems from his admiration for oriental wisdom and thought and his own exploration of nature and mind.
When I haven't come out of the spiritual world of the wolf, and when I haven't let the wandering souls return to the world, I have learned the mystery of the glass bead play. Hesse is really a great explorer of the human mind. His views on artistic aesthetics and his insight into the spiritual world composed of "pure forms and formulas, pure abstract concepts and nuances" have reached a state. Writing here, I can't help but think of a special reading meeting held by the Beijing News, "Young people all over the world love Hesse". I don't know when I will feel so strongly when I reread Hesse, but I have to admit that I love Hesse, too.