Klingsor's_Last_Summer

<i>Klingsor's Last Summer</i>

Klingsor's Last Summer

Hermann Hesse novella written in 1919

Klingsor's Last Summer is a novella by Hermann Hesse.

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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

  • Klingsor
  • Louis the cruel
  • Ersilia
  • The Queen of the mountains
  • The Armenian astrologer
  • Edith


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