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Klingsor's Last Summer
Hermann Hesse novella written in 1919 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Klingsor's Last Summer is a novella by Hermann Hesse.[1]
Written over the course of a few weeks in July and August 1919, it was published in December 1919 in the Neue Rundschau. It was later published (by S. Fischer Verlag) in a volume which included Kinderseele and Klein und Wagner.
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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.[2]
Character list
- Klingsor
- Louis the cruel
- Ersilia
- The Queen of the mountains
- The Armenian astrologer
- Edith
References
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