Death In Venice And Other Stories
  • Published: 3 August 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099428657
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $22.99

Death In Venice And Other Stories

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'A story of the voluptuousness of doom' Thomas Mann

With astonishment Aschenbach noticed that the boy was entirely beautiful.

Ageing writer Gustav von Aschenbach is on holiday in Venice when he first notices a fellow guest in the foyer of his hotel: an exceptionally beautiful boy who is staying there with his family. Admiration gives way to obsession as his days begin to revolve around seeing the boy. Meanwhile, ominous signs point to a disease spreading through the magnificent, but decaying, city and, blinded by his fixation, Aschenbach fails to notice.

Death in Venice is the finale of this seven-story collection, marked by masterful storytelling and profound, often haunting, insight.
  • Published: 3 August 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099428657
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $22.99
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Praise for Death In Venice And Other Stories

The real theme is fading creativity and the search for inspiration... A deep and highly complex drama of the psyche

Financial Times

This complex fin-de-siecle masterpiece...seems eerily to pre-echo the destructive decadence that would shortly shatter European civilisation itself

The Times

Thomas Mann's story of obsession and spiritual malaise

Observer

Death in Venice is one of the undisputed classics of contemporary European literature

Independent

The real theme is fading creativity and the search for inspiration...A deep and highly complex drama of the psyche

Financial Times

This complex fin-de-siecle masterpiece...seems eerily to pre-echo the destructive decadence that would shortly shatter European civilisation itself

The Times

Thomas Mann's story of obsession and spiritual malaise

Observer

What Mann understands and laughs at, though it grips him, is the quasi-sexual attraction of beauty and philosophy...Death in Venice is one of the undisputed classics of contemporary European literature

Independent

Mann's obsessive story explores the complex, haunted relationship between an ageing writer and a beautiful Polish boy

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