284 pages
English language
Published July 9, 1925 by A. A. Knopf.
Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
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Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) is a novella written by the German author Thomas Mann published in 1912. The work presents a great writer who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a stunningly beautiful youth. Tadzio, the boy in the story, is the nickname for the Polish name Tadeusz and based on a boy Mann had seen during his visit to Venice in 1911.
Subjects
- Venice (Italy) -- Fiction.