Summary
Thomas Mann: Death in Venice
The novel Death in Venice (1912) by the German storyteller and essayist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1929) is inspired by authentic events from the writer's life. platonically falls in love with a fourteen-year-old boy of exceptional beauty, Tadzi. At first Aschenbach convinces himself that his interest in the boy is aesthetic in nature, but he soon becomes obsessed with him. An epidemic of cholera breaks out in Venice, he - although aware of the danger - does not want to travel and, in the end, dies.
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