Author: Hermann Hesse
Translator: Sam-hwan An
Publisher: Minumsa
548 pages
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About This Book
This book includes seven complex stories, such as Death in Venice, Tonio Kroger,
Tristan, and Mario and the Magician, all illustrative of the author(Thomas
Mann)'s belief that "a story must tell itself."
About "Death in Venice"
Gustav von Aschenbach, travels to Venice, where he becomes obsessed with the
androgynous beauty of the adolescent boy Tadzio. An epidemic of Asiatic cholera
has just broken out and von Aschenbach plans to leave but changes his mind
because of Tadzio, even though he never even has the opportunity to talk to the
boy. Eventually Gustav dies on the Lido beach. In the film, von Aschenbach is a
composer; in the original book, he is a writer.
The character of Aschenbach has been said to be based in part on the composer
Gustav Mahler (the film soundtrack makes use of Mahler's compositions). Thomas
Mann's wife Katia recalls that the idea for the story came from the events of an
actual holiday in Venice, which she took in the spring of 1911 with Thomas and
their son Heinrich:
All the details of the story, beginning with the man at the cemetery, are taken
from actual experience … In the dining-room, on the very first day, we saw the
Polish family, which looked exactly the way my husband described them: the girls
were dressed rather stiffly and severely, and the very charming, beautiful boy
of about thirteen was wearing a sailor suit with an open collar and very pretty
lacings. He caught my husband's attention immediately. This boy was tremendously
attractive, and my husband was always watching him with his companions on the
beach. He didn't pursue him through all of Venice ? that he didn't do ? but the
boy did fascinate him, and he thought of him often … I still remember that my
uncle, Privy Counsellor Friedberg, a famous professor of canon law in Leipzig,
was outraged: 'What a story! And a married man with a family!'
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