Tod in Venedig

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."

Celebra capodopera mondiala a laureatului Nobel Thomas Mann - aici intr-o noua traducere a lui Michael Henry Heim. Publicata in ajunul Primului Razboi Mondial, la un deceniu dupa ce Buddenbrooks il infiintase pe Thomas Mann ca celebritate literara, Death in Venice spune povestea al lui Gustav von Aschenbach, un scriitor de succes, dar imbatranit, care isi urmareste pofta de calatorie la Venetia in cautarea implinirii spirituale care duce in schimb la eroarea sa erotica. In orasul in decadere, asediat de o epidemie fara nume, devine obsedat de un baiat polonez rafinat, Tadzio .