Death in Venice (Vintage Crucial Classics)

Death in Venice (Vintage Crucial Classics)

by ThomasMann (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 136
Edition: New
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Aug 2003

ISBN 10: 0099458454
ISBN 13: 9780099458456

Author Bio
Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Lubeck 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.