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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.

In his international bestseller In Search of Klingsor, Jorge Volpi takes us from the Institute of Advanced Study to the heart of Hitler's Germany, where the line between truth and lies is all but dissolved.Mysterious, seductive, and immediately engrossing, this startlingly accomplished thriller explores the nexus between science and human nature and how they shaped the world in the aftermath of World War II. In 1940, Francis Bacon, a brilliant young American physicist, is invited to join the prestigious institute at Princeton, the world's foremost physics research facility. But a series of personal indiscretions forces him to accept a different, more sinister, assignment: uncover "Klingsor," Hitler's top adviser on the scientific work in the Third Reich, including the race to create the first atomic bomb. Bacon's efforts to expose the truth lead him to Gustav Links, a survivor of the attempted coup against Hitler. With Link's help, he continues researching postwar Germany -- in an era when a secret was really a secret and a lie wasn't necessarily a sin -- and falls into a complicated relationship with an alluring woman. His search for Klingsor, an ominous and seemingly omnicient adversary, is part mystery, part psychological puzzle, part witty intellectual game. In Search of Klingsor places real people in speculative historical fiction, combining the ingenuity of a scientific investigation with the suspense of a great espionage novel.

¿Quién es Klingsor? Detrás de este nombre en clave se oculta un personaje siniestro, o quizá solo una leyenda.Los datos disponibles indican que Klingsor se refiere a un científico para quien son familiares la mecánica cuántica, la teoría de la relatividad, las partículas ubatómicas, la fisión, pero ante todo, que es consejero de Hitler y responsable de las estrategias científico-bélicas del Reich, entre ellas, desarrollar la bomba atómica. Su búsqueda le es encomendada a Francis Bacon, físico teórico al que la guerra le hará dejar de perseguir resultados científicos para perseguir seres humanos. Lo asiste en sus pesquisas Gustav Links, matemático que participó en un atentado fallido contra el Führer.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONWho is Klingsor? Behind this code name lies a sinister character, or perhaps just a legend.The information available indicates that Klingsor refers to a scientist familiar with quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, subatomic particles, and nuclear fission, but above all, one who is an adviser to Hitler and responsible for the military science strategies of the Reich, among which is the development of the atomic bomb. The search for him is entrusted to Francis Bacon, theoretical physicist whom the war influences to stop searching for scientific results and start searching for people. He is assisted in his investigation by Gustav Links, a mathematician who participated in a failed attempt at the Führer's life.

En un contexto histórico fascinante, Jorge Volpi concibe y ejecuta temas de suma trascendencia como son la relación entre la ciencia y el mal y la búsqueda de la verdadEl joven teniente Francis P. Bacon recibe la orden de capturar al científico que controló las investigaciones atómicas del Tercer Reich. Como Mefistófeles de Hitler, Klingsor, su nombre clave, supervisaba la organización secreta de físicos y místicos de las SS dedicada a resolver la construcción de la bomba atómica. Mientras persigue las huellas de Klingsor, y con ellas el rastro de complicidad de la élite alemana en los protocolos del horror, el teniente Bacon descubre a su vez los escurridizos dilemas del amor y el sexo, los disfraces de la personalidad, la infinita sutileza de la mentira, cayendo de bruces en la desgarradora encrucijada de la incertidumbre moral que preside nuestra época.De lectura a la vez turbulenta y cautivadora, enteramente alejada de los patrones usuales de la narrativa hispánica, En busca de Klingsor es un asombroso examen del dilema faustiano que en nuestro siglo, ha encarado a muchos con la atracción del horror.

A Trio of three masterpieces: A Child's Heart, Klein and Wagner, and Klingsor's Last Summer.