7/2/2023 0 Comments Death in venice by thomas mann![]() ![]() The author of the massive prose epic about the life of Frederick of Prussia, the creator of A Study in Abjection, Aschenbach had first made a name for himself at little more than school age, and his reputation had grown steadily ever since. He needed an impromptu interlude, a dolce far niente He had been too preoccupied with the duties imposed on him by the collective European psyche. A strange emotion stirred within him, an emotion he later identified as a desire to travel. As with many German intellectuals of the early 20th century, his mind had been feasting on the classicism of his surroundings, when he came across a displeasing red-haired man. The morning's writing had overstimulated him and he needed clarity. O n a spring afternoon in 19-, Gustav Aschenbach, or Von Aschenbach as he had officially been known since his 50th birthday, set out from his apartment in Munich. ![]()
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