by Thomas Mann · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140183542
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«Death in Venice» is the novella by Thomas Mann, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (80 pages, in English).
A renowned writer in the midst of a creative crisis travels to Venice and becomes obsessed with the beauty of a young Pole, Tadzio, unleashing a destructive passion. As the city suffers a cholera epidemic, Aschenbach confronts his ideals and mortality; a reflection on beauty, decay, and obsession.
Novel originally published in German under the title «Der Tod in Venedig»; English translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter.
For readers of classics with an interest in twentieth-century German literature and the conflict between reason and passion.
Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modern versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer.
