by Thomas Mann · Genérico · tapa dura · ISBN 8431474001996
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«La muerte en Venecia» is a short novel by Thomas Mann, published in hardcover (184 pages, in Spanish).
The writer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice in search of inspiration and becomes fascinated by the beauty of a young Pole, Tadzio. That idealized obsession drags him into a personal crisis as the city succumbs to a cholera epidemic. The novel addresses desire, decadence, and death.
The work was originally published in 1912 and this edition dates from 2003. The cover includes the mention Nobel Prize.
For readers of literary fiction and classic narrative seeking a brief work about desire and decadence.
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.
