Death in Venice and Other Stories

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Author: Thomas Mann

ISBN-10: 0553213334

ISBN-13: 9780553213331

Category: Literary Styles & Movements - Fiction

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This translation of Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann's work includes his masterpiece, "Death in Venice," plus six of the author's short stories: "Tristan," "Tonio Kroger," "Man and Dog: An Idyll," "Hour of Hardship," "Tobias Mindernickel," and "The Child Prodigy."Library JournalMann's classic here gets a fresh interpretation from PEN Award-winning translator Neugroschel, who brings out more of the work's sensuality. Along with the title story, this edition includes "The Will for Happiness," "Tobias Mindernickel," "Tristan," "The Starvelings," and "Harsh Hour," among others.

About the SeriesAbout the VolumePt. 1Death in Venice: The Complete TextThe Complete Text23Pt. 2Death in Venice: A Case Study in Contemporary CriticismA Critical History of Death in Venice91Psychoanalytic Criticism and Death in Venice110The Eruption of the Other: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Death in Venice127Reader-Response Criticism and Death in Venice142The Potential Deceptiveness of Reading in Death in Venice158Cultural Criticism and Death in Venice171Why Is Tadzio Polish? Kultur and Cultural Multiplicity in Death in Venice192Gender Criticism and Death in Venice211The Life and Work of Thomas Mann: A Gay Perspective225The New Historicism and Death in Venice245History and Community in Death in Venice263Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms281About the Contributors294