... its brilliantly taut and lyrical prose, its tender regard for its characters" —Newsday Winner of the Booker Prize Fiction/Literature/0-679–74520-3 OPERATION SHYLOCK by Philip Roth In this tour de force of fact and fiction, ...
Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself," highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella.
A famous author in his early fifties travels to Venice alone and succumbs to a deep obsession with an exquisitely beautiful adolescent boy in Thomas Mann's iconic novella.
In his obvious concern to convince Aschenbach of the attractions of Venice , he is another one of the mysterious ... to the text so that readers who don't remember every detail of their Homer will not be stopped dead in their tracks ) .
... Lust Unearthed, Gay Art: A Historic Collection (with Felix Lance Falkon), Comin' at Ya! (with David Chapman), and Montreal Main: A Queer Film Classic (with Jason Garrison). His other books include Hard to Imagine, The Fruit Machine, ...
Although Mann is considered to be a deeply German writer, at the time that he began writing, Germany itself was fairly new to the world. When Death in Venice was published in 1912, a unified Germany had existed for a mere 41 years.
A "brilliant . . . perfectly nuanced translation" (The Boston Globe) of Thomas Mann's greatest short works A Penguin Classic Featuring his world-famous masterpiece, "Death in Venice," this collection of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann's stories ...
This edition provides an excellent new translation and extensive commentary on many facets of the story.
This volume includes six short works by Mann, including “Little Herr Friedmann,” “Gladius Dei,” Tristan,” and “Tonio Kroger,” among others.
This book includes the author's novella Death in Venice as well as the author's working notes and six critical essays meant to stimulate classroom discussion.
Death in Venice: And Other Stories