false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175809547m/562082.jpg 323328 24 Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself," highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella. 3262117 1912 Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories total:957|5:12|4:21|3:6|2:7|1:2| 957 3764 1406 91 4 2 false false Wed May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 20:21:31 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 20:21:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 09:35:11 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 19:48:17 -0700 2009
I had been feeling for quite a while that I would like to read something by Thomas Mann, but...more...]]> 2 2 false false Sun Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 09:56:25 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 01:04:28 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jan 01 15:42:57 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 14:25:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 21:39:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 20:30:17 -0700 2009 Death in Venice. I'm in no way diminishing the other stories and highly recommend them but still, moving right along...

Gustav von Aschenbach is a middle-aged writer...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 19:22:41 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 18:25:47 -0800 2009 Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

This novella, at only 73 pages in my Triangle Classic version, should have taken me a few hours to read. Instead it took a week, partially on account of 'real life' intruding on preferred occupations. However, I can't fully blame real life for my slow pac...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 01 13:08:08 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 18:51:23 -0800 2009
All I mean to say is that, as a reward for reading something as near-perfect as Death in Venice, Goodreads should unlock an extra star, so that we may properly rate such rare gems of literature....more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 08:08:44 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 22:11:36 -0700 2009
After reading the first three "short" stories - "Death in Venice," "Tonio Kroger," and "Mario and the Magician" - I simply could not slog through Mann's turgid, discursive, and sometimes anachronistic prose that did way more tel...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Wed Mar 21 23:17:01 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 21 23:21:42 -0700 2007 5 0 false true Wed Aug 26 15:05:37 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 16:49:44 -0700 2009 Death in Venice seems to be a fairly straightforward story of homoeroticism, but Mann, who was a highly complex person, never wrote anything that was truly straightforward. Yes, Death in Venice is, most certainly, a story of homoerotic obsession, but like a series of nested Russian ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 14:33:09 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 14:39:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Feb 02 18:49:54 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 18:54:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Sep 08 08:13:30 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 09:28:47 -0700 2009
I told my youngest brother, if he wants to develop a good, balanced, progressive life... then to never EVER read this book. It is practically a handbook for artists w...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Sep 25 12:29:31 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 18 15:51:24 -0800 2008
What is mystifying about Death in Venice for me, is the context. For some reason, this book is accepted by German culture? The story revolves around an old man's forbidden homosexual attraction to a...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Feb 02 16:12:18 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 02 16:12:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 29 15:12:39 -0800 2007 Fri Feb 29 09:14:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Tue Oct 16 16:29:48 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 16 16:33:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 1975 Mon Mar 30 21:06:51 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 21:10:20 -0700 2009 I kept hearing people talk about this book, even woody allen and diane keaton mentioned it in the movie annie hall. I finally bought it when I was in jr. college in 1975. This is one of the most amazing books that I have ever read, I never knew that words could be so compelling and so visual...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 05 15:47:48 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 19:45:46 -0700 2008
So the title story is a great, beat-that-ass kind of story. Clear writing, pacing, perspective, tension from the title, degree of lyricism, dispensing of information -- all that good stuff you look f...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu May 01 17:27:32 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 17:34:24 -0700 2008 Death in Venice deserves special mention for its boldness and content, although it won't appeal to everyone (an older man stalks an ephebe -- from a distance compounded by age and nationality). Tonio Kroger is another notable example of...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=562082