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Death in Venice and Other Tales
Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tell 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 the 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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Detail Information
Series Title |
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Call Number |
823 MAN D
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Publisher | Penguin Books : United Kingdom., 1999 |
Collation |
366p; bw; pbk
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Language |
English
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ISBN/ISSN |
9780141181738
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Classification |
823
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Content Type |
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