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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 833.912
EAN: 9780060576172
ISBN: 0060576170
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: May 31, 2005
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: May 31, 2005
Sales Rank: 26647
Studio: Harper Perennial
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim
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 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.
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."
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i literally finished this book in half a day. I could not put it down or get it out of my head. Quite simply, one of the best novels I have EVER read. Every word sticks, the body is transported to another world and then at the last page, brings you back into cold, harsh reality, breathless.
The only complaint i have is this:
I read the introduction first and it ruined the ending for me.
If this is your first time reading this, DO NOT READ THE INTRO!!!!
I have no idea ... Read More
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This story has nothing to do with sex. In all of Mann's stories he is struggling with living life without art or living for art.
The boy represents art. If he pursues it he might die. That is his dilemma.
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This supurb novella has been with me most of my life. I carry it with me when I'm alone or on trips. It helps me understand the tradgedy of living in a world of beauty untouched. It illuminates one of life's most sacred and profound secrets. It glows within me. Like the Bible, it is a book that stands alone. Elusive. Priceless. Angels are here.
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This is a wonderful novella, written as a self-reflective piece about Mann's own life and how he imagined dying a beautiful death. The descriptions of Venice are beautiful, as are the classical references. The death scene is quite nice, turning from one perspective to another, gently.
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An obsessive, unfulfilled passion is at the heart of Thomas Mann's classic 1912 novella, and Michael Henry Heim's 2003 translation liberates the homoerotic elements of Mann's sometimes dense prose to make the main character more accessible to contemporary readers. Heim succeeds in bringing the story out of the academic cobwebs. The plot is light on action, as it focuses squarely on middle-aged Prussian novelist Gustav von Aschenbach as he pursues his passion for Tadzio, a young Polish boy on vacation ... Read More
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