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Death in Venice

Death in Venice

Mann, Thomas
Chamberlain, Lesley

Paperback

Series: Pushkin Press Classics

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 1805332686
ISBN13: 9781805332688
Publisher: Pushkin Press Classics
Published: May 5 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.05 Depth: 7.73
Language: English
A sumptuous new translation of the sublime novella of desire, obsession, and one man's downfall; another classic from the author of THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN.

Probably the greatest of modern German novelists. ― The New York Times

One of the pre-eminent works of modern European literature, this enthralling story of desire, beauty and infatuation follows the erudite, respectable writer Gustav Aschenbach's descent into obsession.

Aschenbach has always lived a life of structured routine, but he has begun to be troubled by diminishing creative inspiration from his strict writing schedule. While walking in a cemetery north of Munich, he has a dizzying vision which prompts him to abandon his settled life and travel south to Venice.

On checking into his hotel, Aschenbach notices a young Polish boy of perfect, sculptural beauty: Tadzio. As he lingers on at the hotel, Aschenbach falls into an ever-deeper infatuation with the youth, whose curled blond hair and porcelain face fill him with rapture, and even seem to cure his stubborn writer's block. Ignoring whispered warnings of a cholera outbreak in Venice, Aschenbach stays at the hotel and follows Tadzio with increasing obsession, his mind swirling with mad desire.

Classical in structure yet roiled by disturbing passion, Death in Venice is an enormously powerful story of one man's undoing. Full of coiled tension and vivid inner conflict, it is one of Thomas Mann's greatest masterpieces, and appears here in a lively new translation by Lesley Chamberlain.

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