A review by skypager21
Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories by H.T. Lowe-Porter, Thomas Mann

3.0

These stories were written in the early 1900s. Thomas Mann is most noted for his novels, Magic Mountain and Buddenbrooks. Sometimes with a novelist his short stories are like chapters from his longer novels. My favorite story, Tristan (as in Tristan and Isolde) took place in a sanitarium, as in Magic Mountain. Some of the stories seemed a little inward looking and excessively autobiographical. The highlight or the most well known story is Death in Venice, about a successful middle aged author who goes to Venice on vacation. The eerie and paranoid mood is a plus but the strange part is when he falls in love with a 15 year old boy. Different times I suppose.