| Death in Venice Contributor(s): Mann, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060576170 ISBN-13: 9780060576172 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2005 Annotation: 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." |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1410 |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.3" W x 7.96" (0.31 lbs) 160 pages |
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| Publisher 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.” |
Contributor Bio(s): Mann, Thomas: - German essayist, cultural critic, and novelist, Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. Among his most famous works are Buddenbrooks, published when he was just twenty-six, The Magic Mountain, and Doctor Faustus. |