La Mort à Venise est le récit de la passion folle et fatale qui saisit un écrivain d'âge mûr à l'apparition d'un gracieux adolescent d'une extraordinaire beauté. Dans Tristan, le dilemme qui s'offre à l'héroïne est de tenter de vivre en étouffant ses dons d'artiste ou " mourir de musique ". La fin de Lobgott Piepsam dans le Chemin du cimetière prouve que la vie est dure aux faibles, mais que la mort vaut mieux que la débâcle d'une constante lâcheté. C'est peut-être dans ses nouvelles que Thomas Mann, le plus célèbre écrivain allemand de ce siècle, a mis le meilleur de sa verve ironique et de sa sensibilité musicale, de son émotion discrète et dominée, qui se drape volontiers d'un sarcasme.
Author
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. See also: Serbian: Tomas Man Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur.
