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La morte a Venezia

All’apice del successo, lo scrittore Gustav von Aschenbach vive una fase di stanchezza creativa. Dopo anni di severa disciplina, un’improvvisa smania di viaggiare lo conduce a Venezia. Nel lussuoso hotel dove alloggia è affascinato da un ragazzo la perfezione che ha sempre ricercato pare essersi incarnata nella bellezza efebica di Tazio, per il quale prova una passione irresistibile fatta di sguardi e silenzi. Ridotto a fingere una artificiosa giovinezza con belletti e tinture, consumerà la sua ossessione in un estenuante inseguimento dell’adolescente tra le calli della città, minacciata da una epidemia di colera. La morte a Venezia (1912), il più celebre racconto di Thomas Mann, è un ritratto dell’artista maturo, impietoso fino alla caricatura. Il tema del conflitto tra arte e vita, tra istinti e decoro borghese si risolve tragicamente in una fatale attrazione per il nulla, in un voluttuoso cupio dissolvi nella cornice splendida e decadente di una città che seduce e ammorba.

86 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 30, 2026

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Thomas Mann

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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.

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