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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Label Occurrences
Death in Venice canonical 12
Death in Venice (1912) 1
Death in Venice (1971 film) 1

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novella ⓘ
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surface form: Death in Venice (1971 film)

Death in Venice self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: 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 ⓘ
surface form: 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 Death in Venice self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: 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 ⓘ

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Thomas Mann → notableWork → Death in Venice ⓘ
Mann → notableWork → Death in Venice ⓘ
subject surface form: Thomas Mann
Death in Venice → originalTitle → Death in Venice self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Der Tod in Venedig
Death in Venice → adaptedAs → Death in Venice self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Death in Venice (1971 film)
Death in Venice → adaptedAs → Death in Venice self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Death in Venice (opera)
Luchino Visconti → notableWork → Death in Venice ⓘ
Luchino Visconti → directedFilm → Death in Venice ⓘ
Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor → usedInFilm → Death in Venice ⓘ
Gustav von Aschenbach → appearsIn → Death in Venice ⓘ
Gustav von Aschenbach → firstPublicationContext → Death in Venice ⓘ
this entity surface form: Death in Venice (1912)
Tadzio → appearsIn → Death in Venice ⓘ
Tadzio → firstAppearance → Death in Venice ⓘ
Björn Andrésen → notableWork → Death in Venice ⓘ
Björn Andrésen → participatedIn → Death in Venice ⓘ
Dirk Bogarde → notableWork → Death in Venice ⓘ
Silvana Mangano → notableWork → Death in Venice ⓘ