by Thomas Mann · Seix Barral · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432221767
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«La muerte en Venecia» is the short novel by Thomas Mann, published by Seix Barral in hardback (142 pages, in Spanish).
A celebrated writer, Gustav Aschenbach, travels to Venice in search of inspiration and becomes fascinated by Tadzio, a Polish adolescent. That obsession confronts him with art, desire and old age, while the city suffers a cholera epidemic. Mann paints a twilight atmosphere in which beauty and death intertwine.
This 1983 edition belongs to the Obras Maestras de la Literatura Contemporánea collection (volume 16). Translation by Martín Rivas; original title: Der Tod in Venedig.
For readers interested in early 20th-century European literature and short novels with a philosophical background.
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.
