Death In Venice

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Random House, Nov 30, 2010 - Fiction - 320 pages

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 inevitable and pathetic climax are told here with the particular skill the author has for this shorter form of fiction.

 

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Contents

Little Herr Friedemann
The Road to the Churchyard
Tristan
Death in Venice
Copyright

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Thomas Mann
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About the author (2010)

Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in L-beck and studied art and literature at the University in Munich. He was only twenty-five when Buddenbrooks, his first major novel, was published. Before it was banned and burned by Hitler, it had sold over a million copies in Germany alone. In 1929 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He dies in Switzerland in 1955.

Bibliographic information

TitleDeath In Venice
AuthorThomas Mann
Translated byDavid Luke
Editionreprint
PublisherRandom House, 2010
ISBN1446400115, 9781446400111
Length320 pages
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Fiction / World Literature / Germany / 20th Century
  
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