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Country Germany Publication date 1920 | 3.5/5 Goodreads Language German Originally published December 1919 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original title Klingsors letzter Sommer Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback) Genres Novel, Speculative fiction Hermann Hesse books Klein and Wagner, Knulp, Rosshalde, Peter Camenzind, Siddhartha | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Klingsor's Last Summer is a novella by Hermann Hesse.
Contents
Written over the course of a few weeks in July and August 1919, it was published in December 1919 in the Deutsche Rundschau. It was later published (by S. Fischer Verlag) in a volume which included Kinderseele and Klein und Wagner.
Plot
The story is an account of the final months of the life of Klingsor, a forty-two-year-old expressionist painter. A lover of poetry, a heavy drinker and a womanizer, he spends his final summer in southern Switzerland, torn between sensuality and spirituality and troubled by feelings of impending death.
Character list
References
Klingsor's Last Summer Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA