Klingsor's last summer

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)

People: Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

Places: Switzerland