by Thomas Mann · Edhasa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788435015257
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«La muerte en Venecia» is the short novel by Thomas Mann, published by Edhasa in hardcover (182 pages, in Spanish).
The work tells the story of Gustav Aschenbach, an established writer who travels to Venice in search of inspiration and is captivated by the beauty of a young Pole named Tadzio; this fascination plunges him into a reflection on art, beauty and decadence. The volume is completed with the story «Mario y el mago», set in Italy.
The volume also includes «Mario y el mago». The novel was originally published in 1912 and the story in 1929.
For readers of early 20th-century European literature and of the work of Thomas Mann.
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.
