Octavio Solis’s Reviews > Death in Venice and Other Stories > Status Update

“This was Venice, the flattering and suspect beauty— this city, half fairytale and half tourist trap, in whose insalubrious air the arts once rankly and voluptuously blossomed, where composers have been inspired to lulling tones of somniferous eroticism. Gripped by his adventure, the traveler felt his eyes drinking in this sumptuousness, his ears wooed by these melodies…”