"A story of the voluptuousness of doom Thomas Mann"
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.
'A story of the voluptuousness of doom' Thomas MannWith astonishment Aschenbach noticed that the boy was entirely beautiful.Ageing writer Gustav von Aschenbach is on holiday in Venice when he first notices a fellow guest in the foyer of his hotel- an exceptionally beautiful boy who is staying there with his family. Admiration gives way to obsession as his days begin to revolve around seeing the boy. Meanwhile, ominous signs point to a disease spreading through the magnificent, but decaying, city and, blinded by his fixation, Aschenbach fails to notice.Death in Venice is the finale of this seven-story collection, marked by masterful storytelling and profound, often haunting, insight.
“The real theme is fading creativity and the search for inspiration...A deep and highly complex drama of the psyche”
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
Death in Venice is one of the undisputed classics of contemporary European literature Independent
Thomas Mann's story of obsession and spiritual malaise Observer
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
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is regarded by many as the greatest German novelist of the 20th century. Mann's first major novel, Buddenbrooks, sold over a million copies in Germany alone, before Hitler banned and burned it. Mann fled Germany and spent the latter part of his life living in Switzerland and America. He wrote many essays as well as novels, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.
TRANSLATED AND INTRODUCED BY DAVID LUKE 'A master magician of German - and world - literature in the twentieth century' Sunday Telegraph 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. See also: Olivia
"Death in Venice" is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but aging 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 rumors that have begun to circulate about disease spreading through the city. Available exclusively from Vintage Classics.
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