![]() I still do not much care for the main character Gustav von Aschenbach. My criticisms are still pretty the same as they were thirty years ago, when I first encountered this novel. ![]() Upon re-reading “Death in Venice” now, unfortunately I still do not ‘get’ this novel. Theodore Dreiser and George Eliot are two authors whom I did not much like the first books of theirs I read, and yet now both of these authors are favorites of mine. ![]() ![]() It has happened before that a book I read long ago and didn’t like much at the time would redeem itself and become one of my favorites upon re-reading. So it was time to re-read “Death in Venice”. Finally after reading much praise for Thomas Mann, I decided to read his long novel “Buddenbrooks”, That book was excellent, so I went on to read another of his long novels, “The Magic Mountain”, which I also found to be a fine novel. Because of my experience with that book, I steered clear of Thomas Mann for several years. ![]() The main protagonist, author Gustav von Aschenbach, seemed pompous and humorless to me, and I just couldn’t get into the story at all. “Once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.”Ī long time ago, I read the novella “Death in Venice” by Thomas Mann. “Death in Venice” by Thomas Mann (1916) – 160 pages Translated by David Luke ![]()
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