Klingsor's Last Summer

Klingsor's Last Summer

1973 edition
Author	Hermann Hesse
Original title	Klingsors letzter Sommer
Language	German
Publisher	S. Fischer Verlag
Publication date	1920
Publication place	Germany
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback)
Followed by	Siddhartha

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.

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

1. 柳雯瑜 (2025). "《克林索尔的最后夏天》中的李白形象与道家精神". 中国故事 (2): 33–35. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
2. 刘庆国 (2012). "浅析《克林索尔最后的夏天》". 芒种 (24): 180–181. Retrieved 2025-06-17.