Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories
Publisher: Vintage
Published: September 12, 1954
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780394700038
Description: These stories, as direct as Thomas Mann's novels are complex, are perfect illustrations of their author's belief that "a story must tell itself". Varying in theme, in style, in tone, each is in its own way characteristic of Mann's prodigious talents. From the high art of the famous title novella to the irony of "Felix Krull" the early story on which he later based his comic novel "The confessions of Felix Krull", they are stunning testimony to the mastery and virtuosity of a literary giant. [Back cover].