- Fiction, Middle age, Homosexuality, Translations into English
Celebrated novella of a middle-aged German writer℗s tormented passion for a Polish youth met on holiday in Venice, and its tragic consequences. Powerful evocation of the mysterious forces of death and disintegration in the midst of existence, and the isolation of the artist in 20th-century life. This edition provides an excellent new translation and extensive commentary on many facets of the story.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Thomas Mann
- First published
- 1925
- Pages
- 237
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics, A. A. Knopf, A.A. Knopf
- Editions
- 38
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061828171
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- Fiction
- Middle age
- Homosexuality
- Translations into English
- Criticism and interpretation
- Tod in Venedig (Mann, Thomas)
- Gustav von Aschenbach (Fictitious character)
- Middle-aged men
- Male homosexuality
- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction, psychological
- Fiction, short stories (single author)
“Among the streets that head up the rather steep hill from the quayside to the middle of town, there is one called Grauer Weg.”
Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, the anti-fascist Mann fled to Switzerland. When World
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