Kuolema Venetsiassa by Thomas Mann

"Kuolema Venetsiassa" by Thomas Mann is a novella published in 1912. Gustav von Aschenbach, a disciplined and celebrated writer in his fifties, travels to Venice seeking respite. There, he becomes increasingly obsessed with Tadzio, a beautiful Polish boy staying at his hotel. As Aschenbach's fixation deepens, he ignores mounting signs of danger in the city, surrendering his dignified restraint to pursue forbidden desire. Mann crafts a haunting tale of artistic passion, aging, and moral decay. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955
Translator Kivimäki, Toini, 1894-1980
Uniform Title Der Tod in Venedig, Finnish
Title Kuolema Venetsiassa
Original Publication Hämeenlinna: Arvi A. Karisto Oy, 1928.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_Venice Wikipedia page about this book: fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuolema_Venetsiassa_(novelli)
Credits Juhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen
Reading Level Reading ease score: 27.3 (College graduate level). Very difficult to read.
Language Finnish
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Venice (Italy) -- Fiction
Subject Psychological fiction
Subject Parables
Subject Homosexuality -- Fiction
Subject Middle age -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 74366
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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