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<p>Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's <i>Death in Venic</i>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. <p>In Mann's story, the author Gustav von Aschenbach becomes captivated by an adolescent boy, f

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Author

Philip Kitcher, Jonathan Riley-Smith

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781536137682

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Philosophy

Updated

2026-03-24