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Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
ISBN: 0060576170
ISBN-13: 9780060576172
Format: Paperback
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Summary
In DEATH IN VENICE, an elderly, famous, and wealthy writer named Aschenbach goes on vacation. He becomes fascinated with Tadzio, a young teenager who is staying with his family at Aschenbach's hotel. As his obsession grows, and despite warnings that a plague is threatening Venice, Aschenbach remains at the hotel hoping to make a connection with the elusive Tadzio. Mann's novel is celebrated for its subtle characterization, and its exploration of the struggles of the artist-the longing for transcendence and ideal beauty vs. the need to sacrifice for one's art.
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"Who am I, whence do I come that I am as I am, and am neither able or willing to be anything else?" -- Thomas Mann
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published date: 2005
Size: 5.25 x 7.75 inches
Weight: 0.3 pounds
Pages: 142
Publisher's Notes
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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