by Thomas Mann · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401426124
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«Muerte en Venecia» is the short novel by Thomas Mann, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
A renowned writer travels to Venice seeking rest and becomes obsessed with the beauty of a Polish adolescent, Tadzio, while the city is threatened by an epidemic. Mann explores the conflict between artistic vocation and dignity, and the attraction to a beauty that leads to decadence and a tragic outcome.
Work by the German writer Thomas Mann, originally published in 1912. The novel is set in Venice and is one of the most representative works of twentieth-century literature.
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.
