by Thomas Mann · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422649618
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«La muerte en Venecia» is the short novel by German writer Thomas Mann, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (168 pages, in Spanish).
Gustav Aschenbach, an established writer, travels to Venice to regain his inspiration. There he becomes fascinated by the beauty of Tadzio, a young Polish boy, while the city hides a cholera epidemic. The work explores the attraction to beauty, decadence, and the conflict between reason and passion.
1995 edition in Spanish from the Biblioteca de Plata collection, with translation by Juan Del Solar. Original title: Der Tod in Venedig.
Recommended for readers of classic European fiction who want a brief and intense work about aesthetic fascination and its dangers.
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.
