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Death in Venice

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The novella <i>Death in Venice</i> was written by the German author Thomas Mann, and was first published in 1912 as <i>Der Tod in Venedig</i>. The plot of the work presents a great writer suffering writer's block who visits Venice and is liberated and uplifted, 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. The novella is powerfully intertextual, with the chief sources being first the connection of erotic love to philosophical wisdom traced in Plato's <i>Symposium</i> and <i>Phaedrus</i>, and second the Nietzschean contrast between the god of restraint and shaping form, Apollo, and the god of excess and passion, Dionysus.

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Death in Venice, Thomas Mann, H. T. Lowe Porter

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1990
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Titul
Death in Venice
Jazyk
anglicky
Vydavateľ
Penguin Books
Rok vydania
1990
Väzba
mäkká
Počet strán
80
ISBN10
014018354X
ISBN13
9780140183542
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The novella <i>Death in Venice</i> was written by the German author Thomas Mann, and was first published in 1912 as <i>Der Tod in Venedig</i>. The plot of the work presents a great writer suffering writer's block who visits Venice and is liberated and uplifted, 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. The novella is powerfully intertextual, with the chief sources being first the connection of erotic love to philosophical wisdom traced in Plato's <i>Symposium</i> and <i>Phaedrus</i>, and second the Nietzschean contrast between the god of restraint and shaping form, Apollo, and the god of excess and passion, Dionysus.