Death in Venice - by Thomas Mann (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann--here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim</p> <p>Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustave von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom.</p><p> In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. “It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom,” Mann wrote. “But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity.”</p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim</p><p>Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after <em>Buddenbrooks</em> had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, <em>Death in Venice</em> tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom.</p><p>In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom, Mann wrote. But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity.</p>
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