Death in Venice And Seven Other Stories

by MANN, THOMAS

• ISBN13: 9780679722069
• ISBN10: 0679722068
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-03-13
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

These stories, as direct as Thomas Mann's novels are complex, are perfect illustrations of their author's belief that "a story must tell itself." Varying in theme, in style, in tone, each is in its own way characteristic of Mann's prodigious talents. From the high art of the famous title novella ("A story," Mann said, "of death... of the voluptuousness of doom"), to the irony of "Felix Krull," the early story on which he later based his comic novel The Confessions of Felix Krull, they are stunning testimony to the mastery and virtuosity of a literary giant. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Thomas Mann (1875–1955) was from Germany. At the age of 25, he published his first novel, Buddenbrooks. In 1924, The Magic Mountain was published, and five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the rise of the Nazis to power, he left Germany for good in 1933 to live in Switzerland and then in California, where he wrote Doctor Faustus (first published in the United States in 1948).

Table of Contents

Death in Venice	p. 3
Tonio Kroger	p. 75
Mario and the Magician	p. 133
Disorder and Early Sorrow	p. 179
A Man and His Dog	p. 215
The Blood of the Walsungs	p. 289
Tristan	p. 317
Felix Krull	p. 359
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