Death in Venice

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Death in Venice is a 1912 novella by Thomas Mann that explores themes of beauty, obsession, and decay through the story of an aging writer’s infatuation with a young boy in cholera-stricken Venice.

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instanceOf literary work ⓘ
novella ⓘ
adaptedAs Death in Venice (1971 film) ⓘ
linked to: Death in Venice

Death in Venice (opera) ⓘ
linked to: Death in Venice
author Thomas Mann ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Germany ⓘ
featuresCharacter Tadzio ⓘ
filmAdaptationDirector Luchino Visconti ⓘ
firstPublicationForm serial publication ⓘ
firstPublicationLanguage German ⓘ
firstPublishedIn Die Neue Rundschau ⓘ
genre modernist literature ⓘ
novella ⓘ
philosophical fiction ⓘ
psychological fiction ⓘ
tragedy ⓘ
hasAdaptationGenre film ⓘ
opera ⓘ
hasMotive artistic crisis ⓘ
travel ⓘ
hasSymbol Venetian lagoon ⓘ
linked to: Venetian Lagoon

cholera epidemic ⓘ
the boy Tadzio as ideal beauty ⓘ
influencedBy Friedrich Nietzsche ⓘ
Greek mythology ⓘ
literaryMovement Modernism ⓘ
literaryPeriod early 20th century ⓘ
mainCharacter Gustav von Aschenbach ⓘ
narrativePerspective third-person narration ⓘ
notableFor exploration of aestheticism and moral decline ⓘ
operaComposer Benjamin Britten ⓘ
originalLanguage German ⓘ
originalTitle Der Tod in Venedig ⓘ
linked to: Death in Venice
plotSummary An aging writer becomes infatuated with a beautiful Polish boy while a cholera epidemic spreads in Venice. ⓘ
protagonistOccupation author ⓘ
writer ⓘ
publicationYear 1912 ⓘ
publisher S. Fischer Verlag ⓘ
settingCountry Italy ⓘ
settingLocation Venice ⓘ
theme Apollonian and Dionysian conflict ⓘ
art and aesthetics ⓘ
beauty ⓘ
death ⓘ
decay ⓘ
disease ⓘ
homoerotic desire ⓘ
obsession ⓘ
repression ⓘ

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Thomas Mann → notableWork → Death in Venice ⓘ
Thomas Mann → notableWork → Death in Venice ⓘ
subject linked to: Mann
Death in Venice → originalTitle → Der Tod in Venedig ⓘ
linked to: Death in Venice
Death in Venice → adaptedAs → Death in Venice (1971 film) ⓘ
linked to: Death in Venice
Death in Venice → adaptedAs → Death in Venice (opera) ⓘ
linked to: Death in Venice
Luchino Visconti → notableWork → Death in Venice ⓘ
Luchino Visconti → directedFilm → Death in Venice ⓘ
Gustav von Aschenbach → appearsIn → Death in Venice ⓘ
Gustav von Aschenbach → firstPublicationContext → Death in Venice (1912) ⓘ
linked to: Death in Venice
Tadzio → appearsIn → Death in Venice ⓘ
Tadzio → firstAppearance → Death in Venice ⓘ
Björn Andrésen → notableWork → Death in Venice ⓘ
Björn Andrésen → participatedIn → Death in Venice ⓘ
Dirk Bogarde → notableWork → Death in Venice ⓘ
Silvana Mangano → notableWork → Death in Venice ⓘ
Ludwig → follows → Death in Venice (1971 film) ⓘ
linked to: Death in Venice
Peter Pears → performedWork → Death in Venice ⓘ
Ruggero Mastroianni → editedFilm → Death in Venice ⓘ
Pasqualino De Santis → notableWork → Death in Venice ⓘ
Thomas Mann → notableWork → "Death in Venice" ⓘ
subject linked to: Lowe-Porter
linked to: Death in Venice
Thomas Mann → notableWork → Death in Venice ⓘ
subject linked to: Thomas Mann and Heinrich Mann
Thomas Mann → notableWork → Death in Venice ⓘ
Marisa Berenson → notableWork → Death in Venice ⓘ
Björn Andrésen → notableWork → Death in Venice ⓘ
subject linked to: Smugglarkungen
Romolo Valli → notableWork → Death in Venice ⓘ