A review by mesocricetus
Klingsor's Last Summer by Hermann Hesse

challenging medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

"Then you looked to the bottom of it and saw no sigh of love in it, as you found no sign of love when you looked to the bottom of your own heart. There was only greed for living and dread, and out of dread, out of stupid childish dread of the cold, of loneliness, of death, two people fled to one another, kissed, embraced, rubbed cheek to cheek, put leg to leg, cast new human beings into the world. That was how it was." (Klein and Wagner, p.96)

"For you the love that Klingsor has to give away between a day full of work and a night full of red wine is not enough." (Klingsor's Last Summer, p. 127)

"He ate and clinked his glass with the others; he talked gaily in a high voice; and behind it all the apparatus of his workshop operated." (127)