295 pages
English language
Published Dec. 27, 1998 by Bedford Books.
Death in Venice
complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives Case studies in contemporary criticism
by Thomas Mann
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Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) is a novella by German author Thomas Mann, published in 1912. It presents an ennobled writer who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a Polish tourist, Tadzio, so nicknamed for Tadeusz. Tadzio was based on a real person named Władzio whom Mann had observed during his 1911 visit to the city, but the story itself was fictional.