description: The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim.Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom.In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. "It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom," Mann wrote. "But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity."
language: English
title: Death in Venice
titlecomplete: Death in Venice
characters: Gustave von Aschenbach, Tadzio, Jashu
genres: Classics, LGBT, Italy, Short Stories, Novels, German Literature, Germany, 20th Century, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 53227
places: Venice, Italy
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
category: Michael Henry Heim, awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: Premios Fervenzas Literarias
category: Traducción 
publisher: Random House Audiobooks/Reed