In Tristano (1903) l'arte e la vita si contrappongono frontalmente, emblematicamente rappresentate da un esteta raffinato e da un grossolano mercante, che si contendono una donna sensibile e fragilissima. La morte a Venezia (1913) è il dramma di un "eroe della debolezza": uno scrittore, Aschenbach, che si sente vecchio e stanco, si aggira solitario e senza scopo per una Venezia sfatta e livida, alla vigilia di una pestilenza, finchè trova una ragione di vita nell'ammirazione, che presto si trasformerà in amore, per un bellissimo adolescente, Tadzio. Protagonista di quel delicato idillio che è Cane e padrone (1920) è un piccolo bastardo, Bauschan, attraverso i cui occhi Mann descrive i rapporti tra l'uomo e l'animale.
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.
