Title: Klingsors letzter Sommer und andere Erzählungen
Description: 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.
Subjects: German Short stories, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
Places: Switzerland
People: Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)