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Original Title:	Der Tod in Venedig / Mario und der Zauberer
ISBN:	0141181737 (ISBN13: 9780141181738)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Gustave von Aschenbach
Setting:	Venice(Italy) Munich (München)(Germany)

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Featuring his world-famous masterpiece, "Death in Venice," this new collection of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann's stories and novellas reveals his artistic evolution. In this new, widely acclaimed translation that restores the controversial passages that were cut out of the original English version, "Death in Venice" tells about a ruinous quest for love and beauty amid degenerating splendor. Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but lonely author, travels to the Queen of the Adriatic in search of an elusive spiritual fulfillment that turns into his erotic doom. Spellbound by a beautiful Polish boy, he finds himself fettered to this hypnotic city of sun-drenched sensuality and eerie physical decay. Also included in this volume are eleven other stories by Mann: "Tonio Kroger," "Gladius Dei," "The Blood of the Walsungs," "The Will for Happiness," "Little Herr Friedmann," "Tobias Mindernickel," "Little Lizzy," "Tristan," "The Starvelings," "The Wunderkind," and "Harsh Hour." All of the stories collected here display Mann's inimitable use of irony, his subtle characterizations, and superb, complex plots.

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Title	:	Death in Venice and Other Tales
Author	:	Thomas Mann
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	May 1st 1999 by Penguin Classics (first published 1911)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Short Stories. European Literature. German Literature. Literature

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Finishing fantastic books should be like beating levels in Zelda...wait, WAIT! Here me out...All I mean to say is that, as a reward for reading something as near-perfect as Death in Venice, Goodreads should unlock an extra star, so that we may properly rate such rare gems of literature...sort of like extra hearts in Zelda, no? Fine, fine, never mind.You indulge in the illusion that your life is habitually steady, simple, concentrated, and contemplative, that you belong entirely to yourself-and

There's only one thing I need to point out about this and it's after the fantastic Death in Venice, the excellent Tonio Kroger, the good Mario and the Magician, and the underwhelming Disorder and Early Sorrow that the most baffling curveball in any story collection I've read comes barreling in. A Man and His Dog is a novella in which the most respected German writer of the 20th century tries his hand at writing Marley & Me. Maybe someone could point out to me the German sociopolitical

The short stories of Thomas Mann often revolve around troubled society families and struggling artists. His depictions of the toils and troubles of artistic and sensitive people can read as the author himself longed for a less complicated relationship with the world around him. His artists yearn to belong more deeply to the society around them, and as in Tonio Krôger looks at society and people from the outside, always feeling somewhat removed from humanity. His characters are deeply sketched,

I got this collection primarily for Death in Venice - during a trip to Venice, how cliché ! - but I read the others first, and I think they set it up well. Having previously read Mann's bloated monster The Magic Mountain, I wasn't quite sure how to place him. Reading this, with some input from the helpful German-lang. Wikipedia, gave me some valuable background. "It is as well" Mann writes in Death in Venice, "that the world knows only a fine piece of work and not its origins." But that is

Read "Death in Venice." Love and Death. No wonder Woody Allen referenced the story in Annie Hall. Aschenbach, a writer in his fifties, an artist raised by the Kaiser to the aristocracy, sees the boy-god Tadzio on a beach in Venice and promptly loses his reason. It's a very human story. Who hasn't lost their head over someone? The references to Plato's Symposium are spot on. The prose might be a little dense for some. I enjoyed it but found it excruciating, so affecting is its theme. In that

firstly, i don't feel like this is a story is about a pedophile. to apply terms like "homosexual" and "pedophile" is to grossly malign the intentions of the author. just like calling somebody a "black" instead of a "human being" is a limiting statement, not a summary. this is a story about desire. nothingness, perfection and humanity are all explored in the story also. the vastness of the sea represents a sort of perfect nothingness, a void. in one particular scene, a human actually interrupts

Elements in a Composition"Death in Venice" was published in 1912, when Thomas Mann was 37. The protagonist is in his mid-50s.Both Mann and his wife, Katia, acknowledged that virtually all of the elements of the plot were modelled on their trip to Venice in 1911. However, I dont see any value in trying to analyse the novella as an exploration of Manns own homoeroticism. Mann had to choose, prioritise, sublimate and arrange his inspiration as "elements in a composition". Id prefer to approach the