by Thomas Mann · Newton & Compton · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788879830874
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«La morte a Venezia» is the short novel by Thomas Mann, published in 1993 by Newton & Compton in paperback (96 pages, in Italian).
Gustav von Aschenbach, an established German writer, travels to Venice and becomes obsessed with Tadzio, a young Pole of idealized beauty. The fascination drags him into a crisis while a cholera epidemic spreads through the city. The novel explores the relationship between art, desire and decadence and the fragility of the artist's dignity.
The complete Italian translation is by Brunamaria Dal Lago Veneri; the work was originally published as Der Tod in Venedig.
For readers of classic European literature who want to read Thomas Mann in Italian.
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.
