Germany

Death in Venice

by Thomas Mann

Summary

A celebrated German writer travels to Venice for rest and becomes obsessed with the beauty of a Polish boy, Tadzio, even as cholera sweeps through the city. One of the most formally perfect novellas in German literature.

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Thomas Mann

German novelist and essayist (1875–1955) and Nobel laureate who explored the tension between the bourgeois world and the life of the artist. He fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and eventually settled in the United States.

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Published
1912
Author
Thomas Mann