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Aschenbach, a German writer, travels to Venice to get a change of scene, for he has a writer’s block and he is desperately in need of inspiration. He happens to be a self-disciplined, respected, and successful writer who pays a lot of importance to purity of art and aestheticism.
His experiences in Venice change everything very dramatically. He sees an adolescent boy at the hotel where he takes a suite. The boy is extremely beautiful, like a Greek sculpture.
Aschenbach initially believes that he has pure aesthetic interest in that boy, but over the time and certain experiences in that city he sheds his morality and self-discipline, leading him to his decline and ultimate death.
Literature Help: Death in Venice
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Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Plot Summary
Chapter Three: Characters
Chapter Four: Complete Summary
Chapter Five: Critical Analysi
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Literature Help: Death in Venice
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Chapter One: Introduction
Death in Venice
by the German author Thomas Mann was first published in 1912. The story of this novella revolves around a great writer.
The writer suffers from writer’s block. He goes to Venice and there he finds his salvation. He feels uplifted. In Venice he gets obsessed by a very beautiful youth.
He does not speak to that stunningly beautiful young boy named Tadzio, but he feels that he is being drawn deep into ruinous inward passion.
Unfortunately, a cholera plague breaks out in Venice. The writer also succumbs to the disease.
The novella is based on the prime theme of the connection of erotic love to philosophical wisdom.
The story gets its inspiration from the contrast between Apollo and Dionysus drawn by Nietzsche. Apollo
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