Der Tod in Venedig

This is one of the most studied and widely read works of 20th-century German literature: Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Der Tod in Venedig. My copy is brand new, unread, with no creasing to the spine or covers. Fischer Taschenbuch, December 2021. Text based on the 1913 S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin edition, newly reviewed; unabridged edition, first published by Fischer Taschenbuch in Frankfurt am Main, July 1992. Copyright Katia Mann, 1967. Printed in Germany on FSC-certified paper. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 and is counted among the most significant German-language writers of the twentieth century, also the author of Buddenbrooks, Der Zauberberg, and Doktor Faustus. Set in Venice during a cholera outbreak in the summer of 1911, Der Tod in Venedig follows the celebrated writer Gustav von Aschenbach as a holiday taken to escape creative exhaustion becomes the site of an absorbing personal crisis. The novella draws extensively on classical mythology and the philosophy of Nietzsche, and has been the subject of extensive critical and scholarly study for over a century. ISBN 978-3-596-11266-1.