Tonio Kroeger & A Morte em Veneza

by Thomas Mann, Maria Deling (translator)

Text in Portuguese. A Morte em Veneza (1912) é uma das novelas exemplares da moderna literatura A história do escritor Gustav von Aschenbach, que viaja a Veneza para descansar e lá se vê hipnotizado pela beleza do jovem polonês Tadzio. O volume traz ainda Tonio Kröger, narrativa de 1903 que Thomas Mann declarava ser uma de suas favoritas. A novela tem diversos traços autobiográficos e está centrada na relação entre artista e sociedade, um tema muito caro à obra de ficção do escritor, sobretudo nos primeiros trabalhos.

172 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1971

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Serbian: Tomas Man

Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur.