by Thomas Mann · FISCHER Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596112661
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«Der Tod in Venedig» (Death in Venice) is the novella by Thomas Mann, published by FISCHER Taschenbuch in paperback (144 pages, in German).
The established writer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice seeking inspiration and becomes obsessed with the beauty of a Polish adolescent, Tadzio. As the city suffers a cholera epidemic, the novella intertwines that desire with reflection on art, beauty, decadence and death.
The text of this edition corresponds to the Great Commented Frankfurt Edition (GKFA); number 11266 in the Fischer Taschenbuch series.
For readers of German literary classics and of short novels about passion, old age and art.
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.
