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"Death in Venice is Thomas Mann's novella concerning Gustav von Aschenbach, a famous middle-aged author who in order to alleviate a terrible case of writer's black decides to go on holiday. Gustav first travels to the coast of Austria-Hungary but soon is overcome with the feeling that he is meant to travel to Venice. On Lido Island he takes up residence in a suite at the Grand Hotel des Bains. During dinner one evening at the hotel he sees a family...
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A new translation of the author's short fiction. The title story is on a man's infatuation with a beautiful boy while on holiday in Venice, in The Blood of the Walsungs a woman cheats on her fiance by having an affair with her twin brother, and in The Will for Happiness a sick man waits five years to marry a woman, dying the day after the wedding.
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Novela célebre de la pasión atormentada de un escritor alemán de mediana edad por un joven polaco conocido durante sus vacaciones en Venecia, y sus trágicas consecuencias. Poderosa evocación de las misteriosas fuerzas de la muerte y la desintegración en medio de la existencia, y el aislamiento del artista en la vida del siglo XX. Esta edición ofrece una excelente traducción nueva y un extenso comentario sobre muchas facetas de la historia.
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