ENGLISH

Death in Venice

By Thomas Mann , Michael Henry Heim (Translator) , Michael Cunningham (Introduction)

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Year
2005
ISBN
0060576170, 9780060576172, 0060729457
Google Books ID
Zt8Mthjp4PYC
Open Library ID
OL23080956M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3272435 bytes)
Pages
169\169
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom. In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. "It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom," Mann wrote. "But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity."

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