"The Glass Bead Game" by Herman Hesse
I am coming back to Hesse after 20 years (have read all of his books in my teens) and I am enjoying him very much. He had a great gift for synthesis of multiple disciplines, such as music, philosophy, psychology, art, politics...and creating very colourful yet deep enviroment that can enable readers to enjoy profound ideas and point of views, without necessarily having training in any of those fields.
Few days ago I finished reading "Steppenwolf" and it is another great book in which he plays with nihilism, hedonism, asceticism, religion, every day life and internal struggle all those competing forces bring into human psyche.
I would highly recommend him. And so would Stockholm and the Nobel comity :giggle: