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Death in Venice

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The novella Death in Venice was written by the German author Thomas Mann, and was first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig . 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 Symposium and Phaedrus , 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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Année de publication
1990
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Langue
Anglais
Publié
1990
Format
souple
Pages
80
ISBN10
014018354X
ISBN13
9780140183542
Séries
Première publication
1912
Titre original
Der Tod in Venedig
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3,75 sur 5
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The novella Death in Venice was written by the German author Thomas Mann, and was first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig . 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 Symposium and Phaedrus , and second the Nietzschean contrast between the god of restraint and shaping form, Apollo, and the god of excess and passion, Dionysus.