Death in Venice

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literary work novella

Death in Venice is a 1912 novella by Thomas Mann that explores themes of beauty, obsession, and decay through the story of an aging writer’s infatuation with a young boy in cholera-stricken Venice.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	literary work → novella →
adaptedAs	Death in Venice (1971 film) → Death in Venice (opera) →
author	Thomas Mann →
countryOfOrigin	Germany →
featuresCharacter	Tadzio →
filmAdaptationDirector	Luchino Visconti →
firstPublicationForm	serial publication →
firstPublicationLanguage	German →
firstPublishedIn	Die Neue Rundschau →
genre	modernist literature → novella → philosophical fiction → psychological fiction → tragedy →
hasAdaptationGenre	film → opera →
hasMotive	artistic crisis → travel →
hasSymbol	Venetian lagoon → cholera epidemic → the boy Tadzio as ideal beauty →
influencedBy	Friedrich Nietzsche → Greek mythology →
literaryMovement	Modernism →
literaryPeriod	early 20th century →
mainCharacter	Gustav von Aschenbach →
narrativePerspective	third-person narration →
notableFor	exploration of aestheticism and moral decline →
operaComposer	Benjamin Britten →
originalLanguage	German →
originalTitle	Der Tod in Venedig →
plotSummary	An aging writer becomes infatuated with a beautiful Polish boy while a cholera epidemic spreads in Venice. →
protagonistOccupation	author → writer →
publicationYear	1912 →
publisher	S. Fischer Verlag →
settingCountry	Italy →
settingLocation	Venice →
theme	Apollonian and Dionysian conflict → art and aesthetics → beauty → death → decay → disease → homoerotic desire → obsession → repression →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Luchino Visconti → Thomas Mann → Thomas Mann →	notableWork
Death in Venice ("Death in Venice (1971 film)") → Death in Venice ("Death in Venice (opera)") →	adaptedAs
Luchino Visconti →	directedFilm
Death in Venice ("Der Tod in Venedig") →	originalTitle