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Death In Venice And Other Stories Paperback – 3 August 2001

by Thomas Mann (Author)
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TRANSLATED AND INTRODUCED BY DAVID LUKEDeath in Venice is a story of obsession. Soon his days begin to revolve around seeing this boy and he is too distracted to pay attention to the ominous rumours that have begun to circulate about disease spreading through the city.
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The real theme is fading creativity and the search for inspiration...A deep and highly complex drama of the psyche, Financial Times

This complex fin-de-siecle masterpiece...seems eerily to pre-echo the destructive decadence that would shortly shatter European civilisation itself, The Times

Thomas Mann's story of obsession and spiritual malaise, Observer

What Mann understands and laughs at, though it grips him, is the quasi-sexual attraction of beauty and philosophy...Death in Venice is one of the undisputed classics of contemporary European literature, Independent

Mann's obsessive story explores the complex, haunted relationship between an ageing writer and a beautiful Polish boy, Express

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Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Lubeck, of a line of prosperous and influential merchants. Mann was educated under the discipline of North German schoolmasters before working for an insurance office aged nineteen. During this time he secretly wrote his first tale, Fallen, and shortly afterwards he left the insurance office to study art and literature at the University of Munich. After a year in Rome he devoted himself exclusively to writing. He was only twenty-five when Buddenbrooks, his first major novel, was published. Before it was banned and burned by Hitler, it had sold over a million copies in Germany alone. His second great novel, The Magic Mountain, was published in 1924 and the first volume of his tetralogy Joseph and his Brothers in 1933. In 1929 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1933 Thomas Mann left Germany to live in Switzerland. Then, after several previous visits, in 1938 he settled in the United States where he wrote Doctor Faustus and The Holy Sinner. Among the honours he recieved in the USA was his appointment as a Fellow of the Library of Congress. He revisited his native country in 1949 and returned to Switzerland in 1952, where The Black Swan and Confessions of Felix Krull were written and where he died in 1955.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET; 1st edition (3 August 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099428652
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099428657
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.34 x 2.54 x 19.69 cm
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Paul Thomas Mann (German: [paʊ̯l toːmas man]; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.

Mann was a member of the Hanseatic Mann family and portrayed his family and class in his first novel, Buddenbrooks. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he moved to the United States, returning to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur, literature written in German by those who opposed or fled the Hitler regime.

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Fiona
1.0 out of 5 stars Says six stories - only contains one
Reviewed in Canada on 8 April 2024
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Says six stories - only contains one
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Jili Power
5.0 out of 5 stars Strange, dark, thought-provoking...
Reviewed in the United States on 2 July 2021
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It was a struggle to continue reading this story because its portent was dark and disturbing. It was so well written, however, that I could not put it down, even if what I feared was to come.
I am glad I read to the end; it was as it was meant to be. I am quite in awe of this short piece of Thomas Mann’s work and certainly believe this reading will be long remembered.
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Otto
5.0 out of 5 stars Ottima collezione
Reviewed in Italy on 14 February 2022
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Questo libro è un'edizione inglese di Death in Venice con altri racconti scritti da Thomas Mann. Il libro è arrivato in buone condizioni (con una piccola ammaccatura). Morte a Venezia è un capolavoro ma anche gli altri racconti della raccolta sono scritti molto bene. Consigliato!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ottima collezione
Reviewed in Italy on 14 February 2022
Questo libro è un'edizione inglese di Death in Venice con altri racconti scritti da Thomas Mann. Il libro è arrivato in buone condizioni (con una piccola ammaccatura). Morte a Venezia è un capolavoro ma anche gli altri racconti della raccolta sono scritti molto bene. Consigliato!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent collection
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 June 2013
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One of the great European writers of the twentieth century, Thomas Mann is one of those figures who still looms large over literature. 'Death in Venice' is (rightly) regarded as one of his finest works, forming an appropriate ending to this collection, but many of the other stories in this volume are also excellent and everything here is worthy of any thoughtful reader's time.

Aside from collecting so many of Mann's finest early works, this collection is worth commending for its excellent introduction, which does much to illuminate Mann's life and work and the cultural context which gave birth to his extraordinary writing. Not knowing what to expect, I delved into the introduction first and already found that a certain sadness pervaded my view of Mann, merely from the biographical aspects of it. This became very potent as I read through the stories, and it was hard not to make comparisons between the life described in the introduction and the lives we glimpse in the stories.

Many of the stories in this collection form variations on a similar theme: that of young men who waste their lives only to come to their senses all too late. Naturally, this makes it a rather melancholic read at times but the death (or non-birth) of youth is a fascinating theme. Although this may make some of the works seem like templates, this is definitely not the case - Mann's real skill is his gift for relating the high emotions of his characters, even when they are not obvious to those around them. Because of this, the reader has to approach them with empathy; although Mann's writing is not as formally inventive as some of his contemporaries, perhaps the 'difficulty' of his work lies in its emotional nuances. Fortunately, he shares the empathy of the reader in bringing his characters to life.

No matter how good the likes of 'Little Herr Friedemann' are, the two best works come last. 'Tonio Kroeger' is the archetypal kunstlerroman (novel of artistic development). This novella forms something of an analogue for Mann's own development as a writer, setting up sublimation as a key aspect of Mann's writing. The idea of sublimation becomes even more important in 'Death in Venice' itself. Deservedly regarded as a literary classic, the final part of this collection forms one of Mann's greatest achievements. Amidst a world of decay, Gustav von Aschenbach goes on holiday to Venice only to develop an obsessive infatuation with Tadzio, a young Polish boy staying in the same hotel. The protagonist's obsession is so great that even a cholera outbreak is not enough to drive him away from the object of his desire as he becomes increasingly in thrall to his infatuation and loses touch with everything else. In spite of the obvious sadness of von Aschenbach, the experience creates something of an artistic awakening in him, giving us a glimpse of the strange genesis of artistic inspiration.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Only Death In Venice in this Kindle Version
Reviewed in the United States on 29 December 2021
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Only Death in Venice is in this Kindle version. None of the other stories are included.
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