by Thomas Mann · Quinteto · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496333529
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«La muerte en Venecia / Mario y el mago» is the fiction volume by Thomas Mann, published by Quinteto in paperback (188 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together two narratives by Thomas Mann. The first, which gives the book its title, follows an exhausted spirit that only sustains itself through artifice and lets itself be seduced by the spontaneous beauty of an adolescent, amid the vivid tones and twilight air of Venice. The second, «Mario y el mago», recounts the tense performance of a magician in Italy.
The volume includes a prologue by Francisco Ayala; the two works were originally published in 1912 and 1929.
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.
