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PublisherHachette Books
ISBN-100786712473
ISBN-139780786712472
eBay Product ID (ePID)2729153
Product Key Features
Book TitleReal Tadzio : Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and the Boy Who Inspired It
Number of Pages112 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicEuropean / German, General, Literary
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorGilbert Adair
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight64.1 Oz
Item Length7 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-055331
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal833/.912
SynopsisIn the summer of 1911, the German writer Thomas Mann visited Venice in the company of his wife Katia. There, in the Grand Hotel des Bains, as he waited for the dinner-gong to ring, the author's roving eye was drawn to a nearby Polish family, the Moeses, consisting of a mother, three daughters, and a young sailor-suited son who, to Mann, exuded an almost supernatural beauty and grace. Inspired by this glancing encounter with the luminous child, Mann wrote Death in Venice, and the infatuated writer made of that boy, Wladyslaw Moes, one of the twentieth century's most potent and enduring icons. According to Gilbert Adair in his sparkling evocation of that idyll on the Adriatic, Mann wrote his novella, "as though taking dictation from God." But precisely who was the boy? And what was his reaction to the publication of Death in Venice in 1912 and, later, the release of Luchino Visconti's film adaptation in 1971? In this revealing portrait, including telling photographs, Gilbert Adair brilliantly juxtaposes the life of Wladyslaw Moes with that of his mythic twin, Tadzio. It is a fascinating account of a man who was immortalized by a genius, yet forgotten by history., In the summer of 1911, the German writer Thomas Mann visited Venice in the company of his wife Katia. There, in the Grand Hotel des Bains, as he waited for the dinner-gong to ring, the author's roving eye was drawn to a nearby Polish family, the Moeses, consisting of a mother, three daughters, and a young sailor-suited son who, to Mann, exuded an almost supernatural beauty and grace. Inspired by this glancing encounter with the luminous child, Mann wrote Death in Venice, and the infatuated writer made of that boy, Wladyslaw Moes, one of the twentieth century's most potent and enduring icons. According to Gilbert Adair in his sparkling evocation of that idyll on the Adriatic, Mann wrote his novella, as though taking dictation from God. But precisely who was the boy? And what was his reaction to the publication of Death in Venice in 1912 and, later, the release of Luchino Visconti's film adaptation in 1971? In this revealing portrait, including telling photographs, Gilbert Adair brilliantly juxtaposes the life of Wladyslaw Moes with that of his mythic twin, Tadzio. It is a fascinating account of a man who was immortalized by a genius, yet forgotten by history.
LC Classification NumberPT2625.A44Z74853
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- 31. Jul. 2018
Very illuminating and shows how "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and the time in history.
Former library book. Well presented in form.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
