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

I have been nourishing some love in anticipation of Magic Mountain. I’ve just finished the first story ‘Little Herr Friedemann’, and at the beginning it had that flavor of Stendhal’s The Red and Black (despite some obvious differences). To characterize the author - very descriptive which allows for poignant (and valuable) questions being identified and answered by the end. Almost like a detective work. Hmm