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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Meine Favoriten sind "Gladius Dei und Die vertauschten Knöpfe".
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Death in Venice, like The Heart of Darkness, is a strong novella-a very short novel-huge in its emotional outcome. The attraction of an old man to a beautiful boy causes him delight and deathly suffering. A must read.
No me gustó mucho porque lo sentí muy repetetivo; todos los personajes eran diferentes; sin embargo, todos eran iguales.
[note to self: have only read death in venice not the others)
challenging
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
Ahaha, I couldn't decide between saying I loved this book to saying I hated it so I split the difference. I still laugh about this book with people from my class who had to read it. It was creepy and depressing but you never related to the downtrodden protagonist so you just got to judge him with abandon, which is always fun. It gave me the word "rictus" for which I will always be grateful.
I liked and disliked this book. Mann has his character, Aschenbach, preach a little more than I like, preaching his thoughts about beauty and writing and control. That's what I disliked. For the first third of the book, I could barely force myself to keep reading.
Then Aschenbach falls in love and begins to tail the object of his affection all over Venice. The story takes a different turn and the writing moves from a rant about virtue to a real story. Venice is beautifully depicted and Aschenbach becomes a real, brilliant, tortured human being. That's what I liked.
Then Aschenbach falls in love and begins to tail the object of his affection all over Venice. The story takes a different turn and the writing moves from a rant about virtue to a real story. Venice is beautifully depicted and Aschenbach becomes a real, brilliant, tortured human being. That's what I liked.