Death in Venice, Tonio Kroger, and Other Writings: Thomas Mann (The German library)

by Thomas Mann (Author), Frederick A. Lubich (Editor), Harold Ed Bloom (Author)

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  1999

  $44.75

  Thomas Mann (1875-1955) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. This is a collection of his shorter works. Death in Venice , is a poetic meditation on art and beauty, where the dying composer Aschenbach (modelled on Gustav Mahler) becomes fixated by the young boy Tadzio.