by Thomas Mann · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447307319
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«La muerte en Venecia» is the short novel by Thomas Mann published together with «Mario y el mago» by RBA in paperback (157 pages, in Spanish).
A celebrated, already mature writer travels to Venice and is fascinated by the beauty of an adolescent; that unconfessed attraction, fuelled by the city's decadent atmosphere, turns into a secret passion that corrodes his orderly life. The volume is completed with «Mario y el mago», another short story by Thomas Mann, preceded by a prologue by Francisco Ayala.
RBA edition in the «Narrativa actual» collection (no. 20), with translations by Juan del Solar and Nicanor Ancochea. The German original of «La muerte en Venecia» is Der Tod in Venedig.
For those who want to approach Thomas Mann's short fiction and twentieth-century European classics.
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.
