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Death in Venice
- Form
- Form Novella
- Year
- Year 1912
- Originally in
- Originally in German
- Pages
- Pages 75
A famous, rigidly disciplined German writer on holiday in Venice becomes obsessed with a beautiful Polish boy, and stays on through the hushed-up cholera rather than leave the sight of him.
Loneliness ripens the eccentric, the daringly and estrangingly beautiful, the poetic.
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