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6:30 PM
Tod in Venedig
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Goethe-Institut Montreal, Montreal
- Language German
- Price Free - RSVP required
- Part of series: 150 years of Thomas Mann
About the novel :
Thomas Mann himself described “Death in Venice” as a "novella with a daring, if not impossible, subject," referring to the sudden "burst of passion" into the life of a homoerotically inclined individual. The no longer young writer Gustav Aschenbach—with the features of Gustav Mahler—discovers the figure of the handsome boy Tadzio on the Lido of sweltering Venice, strives for him in his thoughts, and becomes engrossed in an unfulfilled love, to which he ultimately falls victim. (fischerverlage.de)
About the author:
Thomas Mann, 1875–1955, is one of the most important writers of the 20th century. With him, the modern German novel entered the world of literature. Mann's multifaceted work has received an almost unsurpassed positive response worldwide. From 1933 onward, he lived in exile, first in Switzerland, then in the United States. Mann did not return to Europe until 1952, where he died in Zurich in 1955. (fischerverlage.de)
About our moderator:
Sebastian Döderlein studied French, History and German as a foreign language in Cologne and Bonn and then received his doctorate from Concordia University Montreal with a thesis on the end of the First World War in the German-French border region. He has been Professor of German Language and Culture at the Université du Québec à Montréal since 2021.
In his free time, he enjoys reading historical novels and short stories that deal with the many facets of German society.
A few copies (ebook) are available in our digital library, Onleihe. (Find here how to register to Onleihe.)
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