Death in Venice (1912) - Thomas Mann
Category: Classic
Narrator: Simon Callow
Tags: Classic, Historical Fiction, Adults
Publisher: HarperCollins Release date: June 22, 2004 Duration: 03:09:27, The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann is here in a translation by Michael Henry Heim. Published on the eve of World War I, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom. In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom, Mann wrote. But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artists dignity., A modern critic wrote - Brilliant prose, expertly crafted, a masterful blending of mythology, allusion and symbolism. In many ways, it is a work of considerable genius. But overall it left me unmoved., Despite being written by a German author about a Prussian author, and set in 20th century Italy, this story has Greek tragedy written all
