Gustav von Aschenbach
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Gustav von Aschenbach is the aging, disciplined German writer whose obsessive infatuation with a beautiful boy in Thomas Mann’s novella "Death in Venice" leads to his tragic moral and physical decline.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gustav von Aschenbach canonical | 3 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German writer
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ novelist ⓘ protagonist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| ageStatus | aging ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Death in Venice ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | novella ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | modernism ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
austere
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disciplined ⓘ repressed ⓘ |
| createdBy | Thomas Mann ⓘ |
| deathLocation | Venice ⓘ |
| deathType | tragic ⓘ |
| desireType | homoerotic ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext |
Death in Venice
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surface form:
Death in Venice (1912)
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationAs |
character in film adaptations of Death in Venice
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character in opera adaptations of Death in Venice ⓘ |
| hasInnerConflict |
duty versus passion
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order versus chaos ⓘ reason versus desire ⓘ |
| hasObsessionWith | Tadzio ⓘ |
| hasThemeRelation |
aestheticism
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art and beauty ⓘ decadence ⓘ eros and death ⓘ moral decline ⓘ obsession ⓘ physical decline ⓘ repressed desire ⓘ |
| isInfatuatedWith | Tadzio ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | German ⓘ |
| literaryPeriodContext | early 20th century ⓘ |
| mediumOfOrigin | literature ⓘ |
| moralArc | decline ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | explores conflict between discipline and desire ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| physicalArc | decline ⓘ |
| setting | Venice ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
bourgeois discipline
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decaying European culture ⓘ the artist in crisis ⓘ |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.