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Original Title:	Der Tod in Venedig
ISBN:	0060576170 (ISBN13: 9780060576172)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Gustave von Aschenbach, Tadzio, Jashu
Setting:	Venice(Italy) Italy
Literary Awards:	Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Michael Henry Heim (2005)

Death in Venice

Thomas Mann

Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

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The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim.

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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Title	:	Death in Venice
Author	:	Thomas Mann
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	May 31st 2005 by Ecco (first published 1911)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. European Literature. German Literature. Literature

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750. ِDer Tod in venedig = Death in Venice, Thomas MannDeath in Venice is a novella written by German author >Thomas Mann, first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig. The work presents a great writer suffering writer's block who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed, by the sight of a stunningly beautiful youth. Though he never speaks to the boy, much less touches him, the writer finds himself drawn deep into ruinous inward passion; meanwhile, Venice, and

A short review because there are 1,500 others! A well-established older German man visits Venice and falls in love with a 14-year-old boy on the beach. Here is a key passage very early in the novella (about 75 pages) that illustrates the authors writing style: He [the 14-year old Polish boy] entered through the glass doors and passed diagonally across the room to his sisters at their table. He walked with extraordinary grace the carriage of the body, the action of the knee, the way he set his

Oh so tragic and rather melodramatic...or maybe I'm just remembering the 1971 Luchino Visconti movie version?A man longing to regain the vitality and vigor of youth, goes on holiday and turns ghoulish at the sight of a young Adonis. Death in Venice walks the line of appreciation and pedophilia. Having no problem with homosexuality, but not being down with the man-boy love thing, I cringed more than once. "Don't cross the invisible line!" I may have shouted in my head more than once while

Solitude produces originality, bold & astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd, and the forbidden. Thomas Mann, Death in Venice Portrait of the artist as an old man.I've been intimidated by Mann. He's a mountain. I own a bunch of his works, in various translations, but keep finding reasons to walk another road, skip ahead, fall behind. For me he has sat waiting like a distant leviathan or like death. So, finding myself in a

Someone recently asked me which was the most melancholy book I had ever read. Of course there are many of them, and it is hard to make a choice, but the first one that instantly came to mind was Thomas Mann's sad story of suppressed emotion and life wasted to keep the appearances. When comparing Mann to Brecht, one sees a line between the belief in a possible cultural achievement and the cynical loss of it, but maybe the line is not only detectable between generations of German authors. Maybe

A short novella, just 83pp. in my edition but one which is immersed in debates about art, creation, beauty and desire. It's deeply allusive (Plato's 'Phaedrus' and 'Symposium', Nietzsche's Apollonian/ Dionysian dichotomy from his 'The Birth of Tragedy') and relies on classical, particularly Athenian, intertexts: the surly, 'uncanny' gondolier who becomes a Charon figure rowing von Aschenbach across the Styx to an 'underworld' from which he never returns; the plethora of beautiful male

In each heart there are unrequited desires; desires that hibernate for years only to awaken after the last days of summer have passed into the time when "To love that well which thou must leave ere long" is the only option. While on vacation aging writer Gustav von Aschenbach beholds the beauty of Tadzio, a teenage boy vacationing with his family. After this one look he is enthralled - and cursed - to follow that path which will lead to his destruction.