Death in Venice

Thomas Mann’s 1912 novella tells the story of the writer Gustav von Aschenbach, who travels to Venice and becomes consumed by the beauty of a young Polish boy named Tadzio. Set against the ominous backdrop of a cholera outbreak spreading through the city, an aesthetic obsession descends into tragic infatuation. Exploring themes of art, decay, desire, and mortality, the work remains one of the author’s defining masterpieces.