Thomas Mann is a renowned German novelist and Nobel Prize winner. One of his shorter works, Death in Venice, was immortalized on the big screen in another classic, Morte a Venezia (1971) by Luchino Visconti.
It's worth noting that Mann's family life itself was turbulent. He was an emotionally distant husband having homosexual tendencies, yet fathering six children, of whom three became appreciated writers too. He didn't shy from expressing his own torments on the paper, hence the novella Death in Venice, about a famous author becoming tragically enamored with a young Polish boy in Venice.
We are reading classics rarely - I hope we'll like this one! Freely share your impressions with us!
It's worth noting that Mann's family life itself was turbulent. He was an emotionally distant husband having homosexual tendencies, yet fathering six children, of whom three became appreciated writers too. He didn't shy from expressing his own torments on the paper, hence the novella Death in Venice, about a famous author becoming tragically enamored with a young Polish boy in Venice.
We are reading classics rarely - I hope we'll like this one! Freely share your impressions with us!