nomadjg 's review for:

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

5.0

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This novella and Magic Mountain, a lengthy novel published 12 years after, share a remarkable number of plot structures - grey eyes, unrequited love, and disease - with decidedly different motives and effects. Death in Venice's exquisiteness proves an exception to the maxim that one must show rather than tell. I am still pondering the nature of its tragedy. I'll get back to you on that.