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Klingsor's Last Summer by Hermann Hesse
bookshelves: autumn-2015, translation, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, nobel-laureate, published-1919, kleptomania, author-in-the-mirror, bellybutton-mining, feckless-procrastination, first-world-angst, decline-disintergration-degradation, suicide, existentialism, art-forms, those-autumn-years, midlife-crisis, gambling, fate-destiny, buddhism, religion, christian, theosophy, memento-mori, mental-health, teh-demon-booze
Read from August 31 to September 01, 2015
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.
Short stories:
A Child's Heart
Klein and Wagner
Klingsor's Last Summer
Most interesting of these three shorties was the middle one, 'Klein and Wagner', yet each were suffused in degrees of God, fate and destiny that renders his oeuvre somewhat dispensible nowadays.
Trivia: Li Po: 701–762: A Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty. He wandered the Yangtze Valley, was married four times and was friends with the poet Tu Fu.
4* The Glass Bead Game
TR Siddharta
3* Steppenwolf
3* Narcissus and Goldmund
CR Klingsor's Last Summer
Short stories:
A Child's Heart
Klein and Wagner
Klingsor's Last Summer
Most interesting of these three shorties was the middle one, 'Klein and Wagner', yet each were suffused in degrees of God, fate and destiny that renders his oeuvre somewhat dispensible nowadays.Trivia: Li Po: 701–762: A Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty. He wandered the Yangtze Valley, was married four times and was friends with the poet Tu Fu.
4* The Glass Bead Game
TR Siddharta
3* Steppenwolf
3* Narcissus and Goldmund
CR Klingsor's Last Summer
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