Klingsor's Last Summer

Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston, Klingsor's Last Summer is a vivid, vibrant Italian summer - full of scents, colors and sounds - that surrounds the painter Klingsor as he spends the last months of his life eating, drinking, painting, making love and living with hectic intensity. In the other two stories in this volume, Herman Hesse, one of Europe's greatest writers of this century, depicts a middle-aged civil servant who has rebelled against the regularity of his life struggling to reach a new harmony, and the mysterious, almost irrational world of an eleven-year-old boy driven to steal from his father.