Esta web utiliza cookies propias y de terceros que nos permiten optimizar tu experiencia en el sitio web, evaluar su rendimiento, generar estadísticas de uso y mejorar y añadir nuevas funcionalidades. Mediante el análisis de tus hábitos de navegación podemos mostrar contenidos más relevantes y medir las interacciones con la web.
Puede obtener más información aquí.

Avanzado
Artículos
Portada

DEATH IN VENICE IBD

THOMAS MANN / KENNETH BURKE
ANCIENT WISDOM PUBLICATIONS
11 / 2021
9781950330850
Inglés

Sinopsis

MannâÇÖs original intention was to write about 'passion as confusion and degradation' after having been fascinated by the true story ofáGoetheâÇÖs love for 18-year-old BaronessáUlrike von Levetzow, which had led Goethe to write his 'Marienbad Elegy'.áThe May 1911 death of composeráGustav Mahleráin Vienna and MannâÇÖs interest in the boy WÅéadzio during summer 1911 vacation in Venice were additional experiences occupying his thoughts. He used the story to illuminate certain convictions about the relationship between life and mind, with Aschenbach representing the intellect. Mann also was influenced byáSigmund Freudáand his views on dreams as well as by philosopheráFriedrich Nietzscheáwho had visited Venice several times.The novella is rife with allusions from antiquity forward, especially to Greek antiquity and to German works (literary, art-historical, musical, visual) from the 18th century.The novella is intertextual, with the chief sources being first the connection of erotic love to philosophical wisdom traced in PlatoâÇÖs Symposium and Phaedrus, and second the Nietzschean contrast between Apollo, the god of restraint and shaping form, and Dionysus, the god of excess and passion. The trope of placing classical deities in contemporary settings was popular at the time when Mann was writing Death in Venice.AschenbachâÇÖs name and character may be inspired by the homosexual German poet August von Platen-Hallermünde. There are allusions to his poems about Venice in the novella, and like Aschenbach, he died of cholera on an Italian island. AschenbachâÇÖs first name is almost an anagram of August, and the characterâÇÖs last name may be derived from Ansbach, PlatenâÇÖs birthplace. However, the name has another clear significance: Aschenbach literally means 'ash brook'.á