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Death in Venice (Pushkin Press Classics)
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A sumptuous new translation of the sublime novella of desire, obsession, and one mans downfall; another classic from the author of THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN.Probably the greatest of modern German novelists. The New York TimesOne of the preeminent works of modern European literature, this enthralling story of desire, beauty and infatuation follows the erudite, respectable writer Gustav Aschenbachs 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 everdeeper infatuation with the youth, whose curled blond hair and porcelain face fill him with rapture, and even seem to cure his stubborn writers 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 mans undoing. Full of coiled tension and vivid inner conflict, it is one of Thomas Manns greatest masterpieces, and appears here in a lively new translation by Lesley Chamberlain.
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