
Death in Venice
A New Translation by Michael Henry Heim
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Simon Callow
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Thomas Mann
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann - here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim
Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustave von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom.
In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. "It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom," Mann wrote. "But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity."
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Simon Callow is terrific. Loved the translation.
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Death in Venice
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Mann, for me, is a transitional writer. He has one foot still in the nineteenth century approach to the novel, and one foot too in the twentieth century; he is nearly, but not quite, a modern.
The novella Death in Venice is one of my favorites. It tells the story of an aging intellectual suddenly without warning “living dangerously”. Obsessed as he is with his own ideas and his inner dialogue as he examines these ideas, he grows increasingly infatuated with a boy he sees for the first time at a hotel during a solo vacation to Venice. He finds himself in a city that seems to be in the grips of a typhoid epidemic that quickly overwhelms the city shortly after his arrival.
A great novella, examining the perils to the body of allowing one’s obsession with one’s ideas; of living a life dominated by one’s mind alone. I’ve read this work before and remembered how much I enjoyed it, and it seemed a quite appropriate choice to listen to during the current (early 2020) Novel Corona Virus / COVID-19 pandemic.
I’ve listened to Simon Callow’s narration of the Aeneid, as well as his reading of Shakespeare’s sonnets and enjoyed his narrative skill very much. His reading of Mann’s novella here does not disappoint; it is brisk, positively full of his unique vocal character’s ability to engage and transport a listener, and I thoroughly enjoyed Callow’s reading of Death in Venice too.
One of the Great Novellas of the 20th Century; Topical Listening During the 2020 Corona Virus Pandemic
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Provocative Prose
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Best Translation, Poorly Read!
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A fantastic book
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Do NOT listen to intro. Spoiler.
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A tough one to assess
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Headline
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Michael Cunningham ‘s introduction was icing on the top.
Wonderful translation and narration
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