Death in Venice & Other Stories
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TRANSLATED AND INTRODUCED BY DAVID LUKE
Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel. Soon his days begin to revolve around seeing this boy and he is too distracted to pay attention to the ominous rumours that have begun to circulate about disease spreading through the city.
About this Author
Date: 2002-10-18
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His first major novel, Buddenbrooks, had sold over a million copies in Germany alone before it was banned and burned by Hitler.
Reviews
The real theme is fading creativity and the search for inspiration... A deep and highly complex drama of the psyche--Financial Times
This complex fin-de-siecle masterpiece...seems eerily to pre-echo the destructive decadence that would shortly shatter European civilisation itself--The Times
Death in Venice is one of the undisputed classics of contemporary European literature--Independent
Thomas Mann's story of obsession and spiritual malaise--Observer
The real theme is fading creativity and the search for inspiration...A deep and highly complex drama of the psyche--Financial Times
This complex fin-de-siecle masterpiece...seems eerily to pre-echo the destructive decadence that would shortly shatter European civilisation itself--The Times
Thomas Mann's story of obsession and spiritual malaise--Observer
What Mann understands and laughs at, though it grips him, is the quasi-sexual attraction of beauty and philosophy...Death in Venice is one of the undisputed classics of contemporary European literature--Independent
Mann's obsessive story explores the complex, haunted relationship between an ageing writer and a beautiful Polish boy--Express
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