Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav Von Aschenbach
(Part of the Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures Series)
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Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venic e is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a philosophical perspective, Philip Kitcher connects the predicament of the novella's central character to Western thought's most compelling questions. In Mann's story, the author Gustav von Aschenbach becomes...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231162642
ISBN13:9780231162647
Release Date:November 2013
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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