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Within Vinony's link graph, Death in Venice is referenced by 190 other articles, and connects out to Thomas Mann, Grand Hotel des Bains and German.
It sits within the topics 1910s LGBTQ novels, 1912 German-language novels and 1912 German novels.
Its subject is documented across 39 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Author
- Thomas Mann
- Original title
- Der Tod in Venedig
- Language
- German
- Genre
- Novella
- Publisher
- Hyperion, limited edition, 1912, Fischer , trade edition, 1913
- Publication place
- Germany
- Published in english
- 1924 (periodical), 1925 (book)
- Text
- Death in Venice at Internet Archive
via Wikipedia infobox
Full text
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann | Project Gutenberg
gutenberg.org →"Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann is a novella published in 1912. It follows Gustav von Aschenbach, a disciplined writer in his fifties, who travels to Venice seeking respite. There, he becomes increasingly obsessed with Tadzio, a beautiful adolescent boy from a Polish family staying at his hotel. As Aschenbach's fascination intensifies, he abandons his former restraint and dignity. Meanwhile, a deadly cholera epidemic spreads through Venice—a danger he chooses to ignore rather than lose sight of the boy who has consumed his thoughts. (This is an automatically generated summary.) ... Read more Show less For your e-reader or reading app — Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, Calibre etc.
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Wikidata facts
- Read free · Project Gutenberg
- #12108
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Thomas Mann
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Publisher
- S. Fischer Verlag
- Narrative location
- Venice
- Image
- 1913 Der Tod in Venedig Broschur.jpg
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- title
- Der Tod in Venedig
- form of creative work
- novella
- language of work or name
- German
- publication date
- 1912-00-00
- inception
- 1912-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
- different from
- Death in Venice
- Commons category
- Der Tod in Venedig
- work available at URL
- gutenberg.org/ebooks/66073
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Encyclopedic overview
Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) is a novella by German author Thomas Mann, drawing in part on his own experience in Venice during the 1911 cholera epidemic. It was published in a limited edition by Hyperion-Verlag in 1912, serialised from October to November the same year in Die neue Rundschau, and issued in a trade edition by Fischer in 1913. It presents an ennobled writer who visits Venice, finding the experience liberating and uplifting, then increasingly becomes obsessed by the sight of a boy in a family of Polish tourists—Tadzio, a nickname for Tadeusz. Tadzio was likely based on a boy named Władzio whom Mann had observed during his 1911 visit to the city.
Plot
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Death in Venice” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.