Death in Venice CD

Mann, Thomas

ISBN 10 : 0060727527 ISBN 13 : 9780060727529

Editeur : Caedmon, 2004

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim.

Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom.

In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. "It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom," Mann wrote. "But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity."

Biographie de l'auteur :

German essayist, cultural critic, and novelist, Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. Among his most famous works are Buddenbrooks, published when he was just twenty-six, The Magic Mountain, and Doctor Faustus.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Caedmon
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060727527
• ISBN 13: 9780060727529
• Reliure: CD