by Thomas Mann · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789807875035
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Death in Venice is a novella by the German author Thomas Mann, published in 1912. The work tells the story of Gustav Aschenbach, a famous writer who, in search of inspiration, travels to Venice and becomes obsessed with a young man named Tadzio. The novel explores themes such as beauty, desire, decay, and death.
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.
