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The novella Death in Venice was written by the German author Thomas Mann, and was first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig . The plot of the work presents a great writer suffering writer's block who visits Venice and is liberated and uplifted, then increasingly obsessed, by the sight of a stunningly beautiful youth. Though he never speaks to the boy, much less touches him, the writer finds himself drawn deep into ruinous inward passion; meanwhile Venice, and finally the writer himself, succumb to a cholera plague. The novella is powerfully intertextual, with the chief sources being first the connection of erotic love to philosophical wisdom traced in Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus , and second the Nietzschean contrast between the god of restraint and shaping form, Apollo, and the god of excess and passion, Dionysus.
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Death in Venice, Thomas Mann, H. T. Lowe Porter
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- Released
- 1990
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- Title
- Death in Venice
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Thomas Mann, H. T. Lowe Porter
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1990
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 80
- ISBN10
- 014018354X
- ISBN13
- 9780140183542
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Art, Love, German Literature, Classics, Short Stories, Germany, 20th century, LGBTQ+, Stories, Death, Italy, Southern Europe, Culture and Society, Adapted for Film, Novellas, Inspiration, Journey, Diseases, Writers, Required Reading, Homosexuality, Nobel prize, Narration, Hotels, Venice, Graphics
- First published
- 1912
- Original title
- Der Tod in Venedig
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- The novella Death in Venice was written by the German author Thomas Mann, and was first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig . The plot of the work presents a great writer suffering writer's block who visits Venice and is liberated and uplifted, then increasingly obsessed, by the sight of a stunningly beautiful youth. Though he never speaks to the boy, much less touches him, the writer finds himself drawn deep into ruinous inward passion; meanwhile Venice, and finally the writer himself, succumb to a cholera plague. The novella is powerfully intertextual, with the chief sources being first the connection of erotic love to philosophical wisdom traced in Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus , and second the Nietzschean contrast between the god of restraint and shaping form, Apollo, and the god of excess and passion, Dionysus.