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Klingsor's Last Summer

Richard Winston

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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 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.

Language: English

Pages: 160

Format: Paperback

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release: January 21, 1988

ISBN: 0586086102

ISBN 13: 9780586086100

Klingsor's Last Summer

Richard Winston

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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 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.

Language: English

Pages: 160

Format: Paperback

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release: January 21, 1988

ISBN: 0586086102

ISBN 13: 9780586086100

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