Death In Venice
A tale of genius in which Thomas Mann explores the artist''s relation to life.
First published in 1912, Death in Venice tells how Gustave von Aschenbach, a writer utterly absorbed in his work, arrives in Venice as the result of a ''youthfully ardent thirst for distant scenes'', and meets a young boy by whose beauty he becomes obsessed. His pitiful pursuit of the object of his affection and its inev...
A tale of genius in which Thomas Mann explores the artist''s relation to life.
First published in 1912, Death in Venice tells how Gustave von Aschenbach, a writer utterly absorbed in his work, arrives in Venice as the result of a ''youthfully ardent thirst for distant scenes'', and meets a young boy by whose beauty he becomes obsessed. His pitiful pursuit of the object of his affection and its inev...
