This superb translation of *Death in Venice* and six other stories by Thomas Mann is a tour de force, deserving to be the definitive text for English-speaking readers. These seven stories represent Mann’s early writing career and a level of literary quality Mann himself despaired of ever again matching. In these stories he began to grapple with themes that were to recur throughout his work. In *Little Herr Friedemann*, a character’s carefully structured way of life is suddenly threatened by an unexpected sexual passion. In *Gladius Dei*, puritanical intellect clashes with beauty. In *Tristan*, Mann presents an ironic and comic account of the tension between an artist and bourgeois society. All seven of these stories are accomplished and memorable, but it is *Death in Venice* that truly forms the centerpiece of the collection. The themes that Mann weaves through the shorter pieces come to a climax in this stunning novella, one of the most hauntingly magnificent tales of art and self-destruction ever written.This volume includes the following stories:Little Herr Friedemann --The joker --The road to the churchyard --Gladius Dei --Tristan --Tonio Kröger --Death in Venice.Auszeichnung : isbn searchedwords : 115816trant : Yes