Work
Death in Venice
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Death in Venice is a novella written by the German author Thomas Mann and was first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig. The work presents a great writer suffering writer's block who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and 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.
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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original title:
Der Tod in Venedig
language:
German
date of publication:
1911
genre:
novella, LGBT literature
narrative location:
Venice
editions
Death in Venice
language: English
date of publication: 1998
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-12002-3ISBN-10: 0-312-12002-8
