Clenger's Last Summer

"The last knight of German Romanticism" and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Hesse's new 10-volume anthology, translated by famous writers, includes novels, short and medium-length works, poems, essays, fairy tales and paintings, comprehensively displaying Hesse's creative career. "The Last Summer of Klingelsauer" contains a total of 11 short and medium-length works by Hesse: "The Mind of a Child", "Klein and Wagner", "Inside and Outside", "The Last Summer of Klingelsauer", "A Foreign City in the South", "Coyote", "Souvenir", "Meeting the Poet", "Revelation on Housewarming", "My Biography" and "Interrupted Classes". "The Last Summer of Klingershal" is a novella written by Hesse in 1919. At that time, the First World War had just ended, and the world had not yet recovered from the chaos. Tens of millions of soldiers, prisoners of war, and people returned to the freedom that they both yearned for and feared from years of rigid and unified obedience. Some young people were dragged away by the war in their childhood. Now they "return" and must face a completely unfamiliar reality. For "old people" like Hesse, those worldviews that were once highly recognized have become ridiculous and ridiculous things of the past. Everything becomes suspicious and disturbing. In such a summer, a farewell summer, a day full of power and light, temptation and charm, filled with southern sunshine and the aroma of wine, the painter Klingsor transformed into Li Taibai, roamed, drank and debated with his friends Du Fu, Louis and the Armenian astrologer. Finally, at the end of summer, I used up all the fuel in my life to complete the final painting.