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Томас Ман

Death in Venice

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Thomas Mann (1875 – 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. Death in Venice, this tale of forbidden love which has long intrigued the reading public, was his early masterpiece.
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97 printed pages
Original publication
2018
Publication year
2018
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  • Дмитрий Кувшиновhas quoted5 years ago
    the onlooker thought he felt the tepid and mephitic odor of that unrestrained and unfit wasteland, which seemed to hover in a limbo between creation and decay, between the knotty trunks of a bamboo thicket he for a moment believed to perceive the phosphorescent eyes of the tiger and felt his heart beating with horror and mysterious yearning
  • Marko P.has quoted4 years ago
    The addressee of that smile ran away with it as if with a calamitous gift.
  • Marko P.has quoted4 years ago
    It was the smile of Narcissus who bends above the reflecting water, that deep, enchanting, protracted smile, with which he extends his arms towards the mirror image of his own beauty-a slightly distorted smile, distorted from the hopelessness of his longing to kiss the pretty lips of his shadow, flirtatious, curious and somewhat tormented, infatuating and infatuated.

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