Death in Venice

&, A man and his dog = Der Tod in Venedig ; &, Herr und Hund

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283 pages

English language

Published July 9, 2001 by Dover Publications.

ISBN:
978-0-486-41600-7
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OCLC Number:
45308807

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Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) is a novella written by the German author Thomas Mann published in 1912. The work presents a great writer who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a stunningly beautiful youth. Tadzio, the boy in the story, is the nickname for the Polish name Tadeusz and based on a boy Mann had seen during his visit to Venice in 1911.

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Subjects

  • Middle age -- Fiction.
  • Homosexuality -- Fiction.
  • Venice (Italy) -- Fiction.