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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 Samuel Fischer) in a volume which included Kinderseele and Klein und Wagner. 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 Italy, torn between sensuality and spirituality and troubled by feelings of impending death.
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Klingsor's Last Summer, Hermann Hesse
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- 1972
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- Title
- Klingsor's Last Summer
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Hermann Hesse
- Publisher
- Bantam books
- Released
- 1972
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 217
- ISBN10
- 0374509298
- ISBN13
- 9780374509293
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Philosophical Topics, Classics, Short Stories, Friendship, German Literature, Germany, Death, Novellas, Selected works, Switzerland, Narration, Novels about Artists
- First published
- 1920
- Original title
- Klingsors letzter Sommer
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- Description
- 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 Samuel Fischer) in a volume which included Kinderseele and Klein und Wagner. 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 Italy, torn between sensuality and spirituality and troubled by feelings of impending death.