Death in Venice

and seven other stories

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Thomas Mann: Death in Venice (1954, Vintage Books)

404 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 1954 by Vintage Books.

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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.

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  • Mann, Thomas, -- 1875-1955 -- Translations into English.