The celebrated author, Gustave Aschenbach, burdened by his successes, comes to Venice for a holiday and encounters a vision of eros -- a vision for which he pays with his life. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann's intensely moving elegy for a man trapped between myth and modernity, was written at the peak
Death in Venice and Other Stories
β Scribed by Mann, Thomas; Chase, Jefferson S (translator)
- Book ID
- 108165059
- Publisher
- Penguin Group, USA
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 430 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780698170445
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Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself," highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella. _From the Trade Paperback edition._
One of the most famous literary works of the 20th century, the novella "Death in Venice" embodies themes that preoccupied Thomas Mann (1875β1955) in much of his work; the duality of art and life, the presence of death and disintegration in the midst of existence, the connection between love and suff