DESCRIPTION:
Based on the Movie "Death in Venice".The short novel "Death in Venice" was written by the German author Thomas Mann, and was first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig. The plot of the work presents a writer visiting Venice who becomes ill and, in his illness, confronts the duality of life: follow the path of logic and reason or follow the path of passion. He becomes obsessed with a young boy who he believes represents life without logic. Mann's intention was to write a treatise on the Nietzschean contrast between the god of reason, Apollo, and the god of unreason, Dionysus.
The boy in the story ("Tadzio") is based on a boy (Władzio or Adzio) Mann had met during a previous visit to Venice in 1911.