Beskrivelse
Death in Venice is a novella written by the German author and Nobel laureate Thomas Mann, first published in 1912.
The work follows the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer, who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a beautiful youth, a Polish teenage boy named Tadzio.
By means of the story, Mann explores the relationships between disciplined intellect and ungoverned passion, and between decaying age and youthful beauty, against a background that resonates today in a time of pandemics.
