Klingsor's Last Summer

基本信息

Format Paperback | 78 pages

Dimensions 152 x 229 x 5mm | 127g

Publication date 20 Mar 2016

Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Language English

Illustrations note Illustrations, black and white

ISBN10 1530647444

ISBN13 9781530647446

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

彼时一战刚刚结束，世界尚未从混乱中恢复，千万士兵、战俘和民众，从多年僵化统一的顺服中，回归既向往又恐惧的自由。有些年轻人在童年时被战争拖走，现在“回归”了，却必须面对一个完全陌生的现实世界。而对于黑塞这样的“老人”，那些曾被高度认同的世界观已成了可笑荒唐的昨日黄花。一切都变得可疑，令人不安惶恐。在这样一个夏天，一个告别的夏天，充满力量与光芒、诱惑与魅力，弥漫南方阳光与葡萄酒香气的日子，画家克林索尔化身李太白，与他的好友杜甫、路易、亚美尼亚占星师，一同漫游，饮酒，辩论。最终在夏末，用尽生命所有的燃料，完成了最终的画作。

Klingsor's Last Summer tells the story of a famous painter named Klingsor as he experiences a final burst of creativity in his last summer of life. He grabs the cup of life with both hands and drinks until he simply cannot take any more.

Klingsor is an expressionist painter ruled by emotion, his commitment to art is total, for art is the embodiment of what he feels to be the essence of life. Klingsor’s most prominent traits are his love of extremes. As a person he is violently opposed to moderation or mediocrity. He burns the candle at both ends and shuns the safety of moderation.

Klingsor is very much a man of the moment. He does not like to plan ahead in any way. He does not believe in tomorrow and he regards every day as his last. Klingsor's two primary interests in life are creating art and making love and he succeeds in both endeavors.

Like Demian, Siddhartha, Goldmund, and Joseph Knecht, Klingsor is no ordinary person. He has attained a remarkable degree of success in his chosen field and he works intensely to maintain this level of achievement. Like other Hesse’s heroes, Klingsor seeks and finds his own unique and independent path to fulfillment.

The style of the story is expressionist, it conveys a feeling of exuberance and excitement. The imagery is wild and colorful. The reader feels transported to Klingsorr’s side as he attempts to embrace the wonders of life and nature with his entire being, only to accept that his time is nearly up.

The novel is somehow autobiographical, Hesse began painting around 1917 and Klingsor's Last Summer was written in the summer of 1919, the novel is a more direct self-portrait of the Hesse of that year when Hesse settled in the Ticino mountain village of Montagnola to start a new life without his wife and children.

Some of the characters have relevance to Hesse's real life. Hermann the poet could be a self reference and Louis was modeled on Hesse's artist friend Louis Moilliet. Klingsorr, the name, is taken from the magician who appears in Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal.

作者简介

赫尔曼·黑塞，德国作家，诗人。出生在德国，1919年迁居瑞士，1923年46岁入瑞士籍。黑塞一生曾获多种文学荣誉，比较重要的有：冯泰纳奖、诺贝尔奖、歌德奖。1946年获诺贝尔文学奖。1962年于瑞士家中去世，享寿85岁。爱好音乐与绘画，是一位漂泊、孤独、隐逸的诗人。作品多以小市民生活为题材，表现对过去时代的留恋，也反映了同时期人们的一些绝望心情。主要作品有《彼得·卡门青》、《荒原狼》、《东方之旅》、《玻璃球游戏》等。

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was born in Germany and later became a citizen of Switzerland. As a Western man profoundly affected by the mysticism of Eastern thought, he wrote many novels, stories, and essays that bear a vital spiritual force that has captured the imagination and loyalty of many generations of readers. In 1946, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for The Glass Bead Game.