by Thomas Mann · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467200089
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«La muerte en Venecia» is Thomas Mann's novella, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (in Spanish).
Novella following Gustav von Aschenbach, an established writer who travels to Venice in search of inspiration. In the city, threatened by an epidemic, he becomes fascinated by the beauty of a young Pole, Tadzio. Through that obsession, Mann explores art, decadence, old age and death.
Original title: Der Tod in Venedig. The work belongs to twentieth-century German literature. This edition dates from 2003.
For readers of European classics and psychological fiction.
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.
