Death in Venice And Other Stories

One day, at dinner, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel. Soon his days begin to revolve around seeing this boy and he is too distracted to pay attention to the ominous rumours that have begun to circulate about disease spreading through the city.

A magnificent city is touched by disease. An ageing writer is blinded by desire.

Thomas Mann’s haunting collection gathers seven stories of desire, repression and self-deception.

Ageing writer Gustav von Aschenbach is on holiday in Venice when he notices a fellow guest in the foyer of his hotel: an exceptionally beautiful boy staying there with his family.

Admiration gives way to obsession as Aschenbach’s days begin to revolve around seeing the boy. Meanwhile, ominous signs point to disease spreading through the magnificent but decaying city. Blinded by his fixation, Aschenbach fails to recognise the danger around him.

In these seven stories, Mann returns again and again to the private life beneath the public self. The result is a collection of European classics marked by elegance, moral tension and haunting psychological depth.

A classic collection of literary stories, Death in Venice And Other Stories is ideal for readers drawn to European classics, psychological fiction and haunting studies of beauty, obsession and moral disintegration.

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Contributor: David Luke (Translated by), David Luke (Introduction by)

Translator: David Luke

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