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.
Death in Venice.
Thomas Mann: Death in Venice. (1972, Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, New York [by Stinehour Press])
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106 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1972 by Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, New York [by Stinehour Press].
Subjects
- Middle age -- Fiction
- Homosexuality -- Fiction
- Venice (Italy) -- Fiction