Death in Venice And Other Stories

ISBN-13: 9780099428657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 336 str.

Thomas Mann

Opis

'Death in Venice' is the story of an ageing writer's obsession with a young boy. The man is so distracted by the boy that he fails to pay attention to rumours of disease spreading through the city. The six other stories in this collection include 'The Joker', 'Gladius Dei', 'Little Herr Friedemann' and 'The Road to the Churchyard'.

Recenzje

The real theme is fading creativity and the search for inspiration...A deep and highly complex drama of the psyche Financial Times

O autorze

Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His first major novel, Buddenbrooks, had sold over a million copies in Germany alone before it was banned and burned by Hitler.