Death in Venice • directed by Luchino Visconti

Death in VeniceIn Our Time: Culture Death in Venice is Thomas Mann’s most famous – and infamous – novella. Published in 1912, it’s about the fall of the repressed writer Gustav von Aschenbach, when his supposedly objective appreciation of a young boy’s beauty becomes sexual obsession. It explores the link between creativity and self-destruction, and… Continue reading Death in Venice • directed by Luchino Visconti