Recognized by readers, critics and the state, the author of the novel “Maya” and the story “Insignificant” from early childhood lives with thoughts of death: a painful by nature hero studies at home and dreams of reaching old age. It is she who becomes decisive for the entire course of the action of the short story and the life of her main character – Gustav von Aschenbach. Death is not accidentally made into the title of the work. The last love of a fifty-year-old writer – platonic and perverted (aimed at the Polish teenager Tadzio, whom he met at the Lido resort) – is inextricably linked in the novel with the themes of art and death. The writer borrowed the external features of the musician to form the appearance of the main character of the work – the writer Gustav Aschenbach, his trip to Venice – for the plot of the short story, the famous love story of the elderly Goethe for young Ulrika von Levets – for the internal passions that became one of the main themes of “Death in Venice”. Written in 1911 and published in 1912, the novel “Death in Venice” was created by Thomas Mann under the influence of two real events: the death of the famous Austrian composer and conductor – Gustav Mahler and communication in Venice with the eleven-year-old Vladzio Moes, who became the prototype of Tadzio.
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