Der Tod in Venedig
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Thomas Mann, 1875 - 1955, is regarded as one of the most important writers of the 20th century. With his work, the modern German novel established a connection to world literature. Mann's diverse body of work has received an overwhelmingly positive response globally. In 1933, he went into exile, first in Switzerland and later in the USA. He returned to Europe in 1952, where he passed away in Zurich in 1955.
"Think of the following poetic character. A man, noble and passionate, but in some way marked and in his mind a dark exception among the rules... noble as acceptance, but noble as a sufferer, lonely, excluded from happiness, from the dawdling of happiness, and totally focused on performance." What Thomas Mann referred to in Shakespeare's Othello in 1907, he later shaped into the character Gustav Aschenbach in this "novella daring, if not impossible object," depicting the sudden "burst of passion" into a homoerotically inclined person. The not-so-young writer Gustav Aschenbach—bearing the facial features of Gustav Mahler—discovers the Apollonian beauty of the boy Tadzio at the humid lido of Venice and becomes consumed by an unfulfillable love. According to Heinrich Mann, he plays with "what seemed to him the most desirable." Without concealing his own intentions, Thomas Mann later explained Gustav Aschenbach's longing for Tadzio: "It is the problem of beauty that the spirit feels life, but life feels the spirit as beauty," because "the spirit that loves is not fanatical... he's courting, and his courting is erotic irony..." He intended his novella to be understood as a "translation of the most beautiful love poem in the world into critical prose, the poem whose final verse begins: He who thought the deepest, loves the most alive.".
Language | German |
Genre | Novels + stories |
Author | Thomas Mann |
Number of pages | 144 |
Book cover | Paperback |
Year | 1992 |
Item number | 2383014 |
Publisher | S. Fischer Publishing |
Category | Fiction |
Manufacturer no. | 9783596112661 |
Release date | 1.7.1992 |
Sales rank in Category Fiction | 6 of 120690 |
Genre | Novels + stories |
Subtopic | Classic fiction |
Language | German |
Author | Thomas Mann |
Number of pages | 144 |
Edition | 30 |
Book cover | Paperback |
Year | 1992 |
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Height | 190 mm |
Width | 120 mm |
Weight | 144 g |
Length | 19.50 cm |
Width | 12.60 cm |
Height | 1.40 cm |
Weight | 143 g |
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