Death in Venice And Other Stories

Author: Mann, Thomas

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 5 April 2001 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 336 pages
197 x 130 x 21 | 238g

With astonishment Aschenbach noticed that the boy was entirely beautiful.

Ageing writer Gustav von Aschenbach is on holiday in Venice when he first notices a fellow guest in the foyer of his hotel: an exceptionally beautiful boy who is staying there with his family. Admiration gives way to obsession as his days begin to revolve around seeing the boy. Meanwhile, ominous signs point to a disease spreading through the magnificent, but decaying, city and, blinded by his fixation, Aschenbach fails to notice.

Death in Venice is the finale of this seven-story collection, marked by masterful storytelling and profound, often haunting, insight.

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