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Klingsor S Last Summer
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Author : Hermann Hesse
language : en
Publisher: Newcomb Livraria Press
Release Date : 2023-09-12
Klingsor S Last Summer written by Hermann Hesse and has been published by Newcomb Livraria Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-12 with Fiction categories.
"I cannot read Hermann Hesse without feeling that I am drawn into the presence of a deeply serious mind, a mind that is searching for the meaning of life." - Carl Jung New translation of the original German manuscript of Hermann Hesse's Nobel Prize-winning novel "Klingsor's Last Summer". This edition also contains an epilogue by the translator, a philosophical glossary of concepts used by Hesse and a chronology of his life and work. Hesse won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. "Klingsor's Last Summer" is one of Hesse's collection of short stories that deals with the life of an expressionist painter named Klingsor, deeply permeated with Nietzschean motifs. It functions as a commentary on human existence, underlining the challenges of grappling with destiny, the affirmation of life, and existential dread. This essay aims to dissect the interplay of these motifs and the rich philosophical influences embedded within Hesse's narratives.The story captures the summer in which Klingsor feels intensely alive, wrestling with his inner demons, his relationship with life, death, and his artistic creativity. It's significant for its vivid portrayal of the artist's life, and the juxtaposition of life's ephemerality and beauty. Hesse's examination of artistic longing and the search for meaning is what gives this work its importance. It has influenced literature by inspiring contemplation of the nature of artistic pursuits and the existential dilemmas faced by creative individuals. At the outset, it's essential to understand the thematic essence of the stories contained within "Klingsor's Last Summer." "A Child's Soul," for instance, dives into the tumultuous inner world of a child torn between the pull of darkness and the allure of light. The story introduces Nietzsche's "noble criminal," challenging the societal norms, presenting him not as a mere malefactor but as an embodiment of individual destiny, even when it veers into the realm of the negative. This character serves as a poignant reminder of the human struggle to balance between societal expectations and intrinsic urges.Similarly, "Klein and Wagner" offers a compelling narrative of disillusionment. Klein's rejection of the bourgeois existence and his subsequent realization of his personal inadequacies are a reflection of Hesse's exploration of self-realization. The narrative eloquently combines the wisdom of eastern and western philosophies, borrowing from Schopenhauer's existential musings and the affirming-negating principles of Hindu Yoga. The title story, focusing on the artist Klingsor, serves as a microcosm of the broader European existential crisis. Facing his mortality, Klingsor's self-portrait becomes a profound commentary on the nature of existence, capturing the zeitgeist of a tired Europe. Intriguingly, the trajectory of Klingsor mirrors that of Nietzsche himself, especially the philosopher's rapid intellectual outpourings before his descent into mental decline. A recurring element in Hesse's characters, notably Klingsor and Klein, is their psychological pathology. These characters, tinged with existential despair, echo Hesse's personal struggles, suggesting perhaps a subconscious reflection of his anxieties regarding his fate. This introspective element elevates the narratives from mere fiction to a profound exploration of the human psyche.
Klingsor S Last Summer
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Author : Hermann Hesse
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2013-01-22
Klingsor S Last Summer written by Hermann Hesse and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-22 with Fiction categories.
This is the first English-language edition of Klingsor's Last Summer, which was originally published in 1920, a year after Demian and two years before Siddhartha. The book has three parts: a story called A Child's Heart, followed by Klein and Wagner and Klingsor's Last Summer, Hesse's two longest and finest novellas. These novellas, along with Siddhartha (the three works were republished in 1931 under the title The Inward Way), are the first fruits of the period that began in the spring of 1919, when Hesse settled in the Ticino mountain village of Montagnola to start a new life without his wife and children. A Child's Heart, written in January 1919, in Basel, concerns the transmutation of a boy's innocence into knowledge of good and evil, and the painful guilt that accompanies this process. Both Klein and Wagner (written in May-June 1919, immediately after the arrival in Montagnola) and Klingsor's Last Summer (written shortly after) are set in a southern landscape that reflects Hesse's life that summer; both novellas have heroes who are more or less Hesse's age at the time; and in both the hero's death is preceded by a grand vision of unity in which the polarities of life are resoluved. Hesse exposes himself mercilessly in Klein and Wagner, a story of escape, wrenching loose, letting go. But the expressionist painter Klingsor is a more direct self-portrait of the Hesse of 1919.
Stories Of Five Decades
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Author : Hermann Hesse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-01-01
Stories Of Five Decades written by Hermann Hesse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Knulp
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Author : Hermann Hesse
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2013-01-22
Knulp written by Hermann Hesse and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-22 with Fiction categories.
First published in 1915, Knulp was Hesse's most popular book in the years before Demian. This is the first edition in English. Knulp is an amiable vagabond who wanders from town to town, staying with friends who feed and shelter him. Consistently refusing to tie himself down to any trade, place, or person, he even deserts the companion who might be considered Hermann Hesse himself the summer they go tramping together. Knulp's exile is blissful, gentle, self-absorbed. But hidden beneath the light surface of these "Tales from the Life of Knulp" is the conscience of an artist who suspects that his liberation is worthless, even immoral. As he lies dying in a snowstorm, Knulp has an interview with God in which he reproaches himself for his wasted life. But it is revealed to Knulp that the whole purpose of his life has been to bring "a little homseickness for freedom" into the lives of ordinary men.
Klein Y Wagner
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Author : Hermann Hesse
language : es
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2011
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El Ltimo Verano De Klingsor Y Otras Narraciones
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Author : Hermann Hesse
language : es
Publisher: Editorial Planeta, S.A. (Barcelona)
Release Date : 1994
El Ltimo Verano De Klingsor Y Otras Narraciones written by Hermann Hesse and has been published by Editorial Planeta, S.A. (Barcelona) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.
A Companion To The Works Of Hermann Hesse
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Author : Ingo Cornils
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2009
A Companion To The Works Of Hermann Hesse written by Ingo Cornils and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
Today, forty years after Timothy Leary's suggestion that hippies read Hermann Hesse while "turning on," Hesse is once again receiving attention: faced with ubiquitous materialism, war, and ecological disaster, we discover that these problems have found universal expression in the works of this master storyteller. Hesse explores perennial themes, from the simple to the transcendental. Because he knows of the awkwardness of adolescence and the pressures exerted on us to conform, his books hold special appeal for young readers and are taught widely. Yet he is equally relevant for older readers, writing about the torment of a psyche in despair, or our fear of the unknown. All these experiences are explored from the perspective of the individual self, for Hesse the repository of the divine and the sole entity to which we are accountable. This volume of new essays sheds light on his major works, including Siddhartha, Der Steppenwolf, and Das Glasperlenspiel, as well as Rohalde, Klingsors letzter Sommer, Klein und Wagner, and the poetry. Another six essays explore Hesse's interest in psychoanalysis, music, and eastern philosophy, the development of his political views, the influence of his painting on his writing, and the relationship between Hesse and Goethe. Contributors: Jefford Vahlbusch, Osman Durrani, Andreas Solbach, Ralph Freedman, Adrian Hsia, Stefan Höppner, Martin Swales, Frederick Lubich, Paul Bishop, Olaf Berwald, Kamakshi Murti, Marco Schickling, Volker Michels, Godela Weiss-Sussex, C. Immo Schneider, Hans-Joachim Hahn. Ingo Cornils is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds, UK.
Journey To The East
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Author : Hermann Hesse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
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Strange News From Another Star
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Author : Hermann Hesse
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 1972-01-01
Strange News From Another Star written by Hermann Hesse and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972-01-01 with Fiction categories.
In 1919, the same year Demian was published, seven of these stories appeared as a book entitled Märchen--literally, Fairy Tales. For this first edition in English, we have followed the arrangement Hesse made for the final collected edition of his works, where he added an eighth story, "Flute Dream." The new note so clear in Demian was first sounded, Hesse believed, in some of these tales written during the years 1913 to 1918, the period that brought him into conflict with supporters of the war, with his country and its government, with conventional intellectual life, with every form of orthodoxy both in the world and in himself. Unlike his earlier work, from Peter Camenzind through Knulp, the stories in Strange News from Another Star do not allow for an essentially realistic interpretation. They are concerned with dream worlds, the subconscious, magical thinking, and the numinous experience of the soul. Their subject is the distilling of wisdom. The eight stories are "Augustus," "The Poet," "Flute Dream," "Strange News from Another Star," "The Hard Passage," "A Dream Sequence," "Faldum," and--perhaps the masterpiece of this collection--"Iris."
Pictor S Metamorphoses
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Author : Hermann Hesse
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2013-01-22
Pictor S Metamorphoses written by Hermann Hesse and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-22 with Fiction categories.
In the spring of 1922, several months after completing Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse wrote a fairy tale that was also a love story, inspired by the woman who was to become his second wife. That story, Pictor's Metamorphoses, is the centerpiece of this anthology of Hesse's luminous short fiction. Based on The Arabian Nights and the work of the Brothers Grimm, the nineteen stories collected here represent a half century of Hesse's short writings. They display the full range of Hesse's lifetime fascination with fantasy--as dream, fairy tale, satire, or allegory.