Death in Venice And Other Stories (Paperback)
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Death in Venice And Other Stories (Paperback)

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Paperback 336 Pages
Published: 05/04/2001
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'Death in Venice is one of the undisputed classics of contemporary European literature' - Independent

Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday.

One day, at dinner, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel.

Soon his days begin to revolve around seeing this boy and he is too distracted to pay attention to the ominous rumours that have begun to circulate about disease spreading through the city.

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099428657
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 239 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm


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The real theme is fading creativity and the search for inspiration...A deep and highly complex drama of the psyche - Financial Times

This complex fin-de-siecle masterpiece...seems eerily to pre-echo the destructive decadence that would shortly shatter European civilisation itself - The Times

Thomas Mann's story of obsession and spiritual malaise - Observer

What Mann understands and laughs at, though it grips him, is the quasi-sexual attraction of beauty and philosophy...Death in Venice is one of the undisputed classics of contemporary European literature - Independent

Mann's obsessive story explores the complex, haunted relationship between an ageing writer and a beautiful Polish boy - Express

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“Death in Venice and Other Stories”

The title story here is, quite naturally, the reason you'd want this collection. An ageing composer decides on a whim to decamp to Venice where he - suddenly and preposterously- falls in love with a gilded youth... More

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