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Death in Venice and other stories

An English reading of the 1912 German novella about a middle-aged man's quest for love and beauty in the midst of decaying splendor.

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  • "An English reading of the 1912 German novella about a middle-aged man's quest for love and beauty in the midst of decaying splendor."@en
  • "A story about a writer of world renown and his slow spiral to a degrading sensuality and eventual death."@en
  • "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.""@en
  • "Celebrated novella of a middle-aged German writer's tormented passion for a Polish youth met on holiday in Venice, and its tragic consequences. Powerful evocation of the mysterious forces of death and disintegration in the midst of existence, and the isolation of the artist in 20th-century life."@en

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  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Compact discs"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Parables"@en
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "Death in Venice and other stories"@en
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