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61) Death in Venice
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach takes a convalescent holiday at the Venice Lido after the death of his child and the disastrous reception of his new compositions. Bored, he indulges an idle, whimsical, faintly epicurean interest in a beautiful boy sporting on the beach. The boy represents an ideal of perfect physical beauty; his youth and naturalness reproach Aschenbach's vanity and creative sterility. The onset of a deadly pestilence resolves his...
62) Thomas Mann
Author
Series
ND paper ; 101
Publisher
New Directions Paperbook
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
Author
Series
Spectrum book. Twentieth century views ; S-TC-36
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English