Description
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 Gustave 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.”
Author: Thomas Mann
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 05/31/2005
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.30w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9780060576172
ISBN10: 0060576170
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)