![]() ![]() These three matters coalesced in Death in Venice. ![]() While in Venice, Mann became fascinated by a young Polish boy he observed in the hotel where he and his family were staying, and also with the recent death of composer Gustav Mahler. For some time prior to this, according to a letter he wrote at the time, he had wished to write a story about "passion as confusion and degradation" based on the true story of German writer Johann Goethe's love for an 18-year-old baroness. The novella had its origins in a visit Mann made with his wife and children to Venice in 1911. Death in Venice - the novella written by Thomas Mann and published in 1912 - is perhaps the author's best-known work, not least because it was made into a film by the great Italian director Luchino Visconti in 1971. Which is better - the book or the film? That question is often debated when a much-loved book is turned into a movie. ![]()
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