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Star rating for Death in Venice and other stories
Language:
English
Description:
Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) is a novella written by the German author Thomas Mann published in 1912. The work presents a great writer who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a stunningly beautiful youth. Tadzio, the boy in the story, is the nickname for the Polish name Tadeusz and is based on a boy Mann had seen during his visit to Venice in 1911. As the story opens, he is strolling...
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Star rating for Death in Venice, and seven other stories
Publisher:
Vintage Books
Pub. Date:
1989
Language:
English
Description:
Translates twentieth-century Nobel Prize-winning German writer Thomas Mann's novella "Death in Venice," as well as seven of his short stories.
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Star rating for Thomas Mann
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date:
[2002]
Language:
English
Description:
This vivid, sometimes tragic, and often humorous literary biography brings to life as never before the extraordinary talent and complex person who was Thomas Mann. Engrossing vignettes enable us to enter Mann's life and work from unique angles. We meet the difficult, even unsavory private man: hypochondriac and nervous, narcissistic and vainglorious, isolated and greedy for love, shy and often ungenerous. But we are also introduced to a man who...
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Star rating for Death in Venice and other tales
Language:
English
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This collection features the world masterpiece Death in Venice, with its controversial passages now restored. These works subtly explore the great themes of Mann's fiction -- his mythic fascination with sexual inhibition and artistic creativity.
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Star rating for Death in Venice
Publisher:
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date:
2004
Language:
English
Description:
A famous composer takes a vacation in Venice, where he becomes obsessed with a young man. When a cholera epidemic takes over the city, he does not leave, just to stay near the boy.
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Star rating for Reflections of a nonpolitical man
Publisher:
F. Ungar
Pub. Date:
[1983]
Language:
English
Description:
A classic, controversial book exploring German culture and identity by the author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, now back in print. When the Great War broke out in August 1914, Thomas Mann, like so many people on both sides of the conflict, was exhilarated. Finally, the era of decadence that he had anatomized in Death in Venice had come to an end; finally, there was a cause worth fighting and even dying for, or, at least when it came to...

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