Death in Venice
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Aschenbach, Gustav von (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Venice (Italy) > Fiction. |
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- ISBN: 0060576170
- ISBN: 9780060576172
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Physical Description
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xvii, 142 pages - Edition 1st Ecco pbk. ed.
- Publisher New York : HarperCollins, 2005.
- Copyright ©2004
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General Note: | "ecco." Translation of: Tod in Venedig. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 15.50 |
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Summary
Death in Venice
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."