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A review by libkatem
Death in Venice & Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann
3.0
Full disclosure: I only read "Death in Venice," not the other stories.
I know this was published before the so-called "Great War" (or WWI), but I couldn't help reading this as an allegory (or a warning) to the war in question.
Aschenbach, a famous author, decides to go on holiday to Venice. (Venice being a veritable playground wonderland for Victorian/Edwardian men). He's suffering from a crisis in his life, his wife is dead, and he's very unhappy. Venice is lovely and beautiful and blah blah blah, until a cholera epidemic strikes many dead.
hmmm... perhaps Mann was in the business of prophet-izing?
I know this was published before the so-called "Great War" (or WWI), but I couldn't help reading this as an allegory (or a warning) to the war in question.
Aschenbach, a famous author, decides to go on holiday to Venice. (Venice being a veritable playground wonderland for Victorian/Edwardian men). He's suffering from a crisis in his life, his wife is dead, and he's very unhappy. Venice is lovely and beautiful and blah blah blah, until a cholera epidemic strikes many dead.
hmmm... perhaps Mann was in the business of prophet-izing?