by Thomas Mann · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788477392989
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«La mort a Venècia» is Thomas Mann's novella, published by Proa in 1991 in a paperback edition (112 pages, in Catalan).
Aschenbach, an established writer, finds in Venice the beauty personified in Tadzio, a Polish adolescent. That mute fascination, in a city that seems to be decaying, leads him to question the balance between reason and passion, and to confront decadence and the meaning of his own art.
Translation into Catalan by Joan Fontcuberta i Gel. Originally published in 1911 with the title «Der Tod in Venedig». The 1991 edition belongs to the Pega Jove collection.
For those seeking a classic of 20th-century European literature and wanting to read Thomas Mann in Catalan.
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.
