Death in Venice And Other Stories

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 *Death in Venice is one of the undisputed classics of contemporary European literature * Independent *Thomas Mann’s story of obsession and spiritual malaise * Observer *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 *

Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is regarded by many as the greatest German novelist of the 20th century. Mann’s first major novel, Buddenbrooks, sold over a million copies in Germany alone, before Hitler banned and burned it. Mann fled Germany and spent the latter part of his life living in Switzerland and America. He wrote many essays as well as novels, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.

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