Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav Von Aschenbach

by Philip Kitcher

Book Overview

Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice 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.

In Mann's story, the author Gustav von...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231162650
• ISBN13: 9780231162654
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.7"