Thomas Mann
Death In Venice
Experience the doomed romance of Gustav von Aschenbach in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. A literary masterpiece set in Venice during an epidemic.
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The masterful novella by Nobel laureate, Thomas Mann.
Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom.
In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. "It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom," Mann wrote. "But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity."
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01.01.2023
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