"Klingsor's Last Summer" 1970 HESSE, Hermann
$150
HESSE, Hermann
[217] pp.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
1970
First Edition
8 1/2" x 5 7/8"
Jacket design by Milton Glaser
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