Death in Venice

Zusatztext The celebrated author! Gustave Aschenbach! burdened by his successes! comes to Venice for a holiday and encounters a vision of eros -- a vision for which he pays with his life. Death in Venice! Thomas Mann's intensely moving elegy for a man trapped between myth and modernity! was written at the peak of his powers. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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! he notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel. Soon Aschenbach's days begin to revolve around seeing this boy and he is too distracted to pay attention to the ominous rumours of disease spreading through the city. This volume includes six additional stories: Little Herr Friedemann; The Joker; The Road to the Churchyard; Gladius Dei; Tristan; and Tonio Kroger. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Mann
• Assisted by: David Luke (Introduction), David Luke (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English, French
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.04.2001
• EAN: 9780099428657
• ISBN: 978-0-09-942865-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Classics New Look; Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)