![]() ![]() Soon afterward, he resolves to take a holiday.Īfter a false start in traveling to Pula on the Austro-Hungarian coast (now in Croatia), Aschenbach realizes he was "meant" to go to Venice and takes a suite in the Grand Hôtel des Bains on the island of Lido. He has a vision of a primordial swamp-wilderness, fertile, exotic and full of lurking danger. Aschenbach walks away, embarrassed but curiously stimulated. He is a man dedicated to his art, disciplined and ascetic to the point of severity, who was widowed at a young age.Īs the story opens, he is strolling outside a cemetery and sees a coarse-looking, red-haired foreigner who stares back at him belligerently. The main character is Gustav von Aschenbach, a famous author in his early 50s who recently has been ennobled in honor of his artistic achievement (thus acquiring the aristocratic " von" in his name). Tadzio was based on a real boy named Władzio whom Mann had observed during his 1911 visit to the city, but the story itself is fiction. ![]() ![]() It presents an ennobled writer who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a boy in a family of Polish tourists-Tadzio, so nicknamed for Tadeusz. Death in Venice ( German: Der Tod in Venedig) is a novella by German author Thomas Mann, published in 1912. ![]()
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