Death In Venice And Seven Other Stories

In addition to Death in Venice this volume includes Mario
and the Magician Disorder and Early Sorrow A Man and His
Dog Felix Krull The Blood of the Walsungs Tristan and
Tonio Kr?ger. These stories as direct as Thomas Manns
novels are complex are perfect illustrations of their
authors belief that a story must tell itself. Varying in
theme in style in tone each is in its own way
characteristic of Manns prodigious talents. From the high
art of the famous title novella (A story Mann said of
death…of the voluptuousness of doom) to the irony of
Felix Krull the early story on which he later based his
comic novel The Confessions of Felix Krull they are
stunning testimony to the mastery and virtuosity of a
literary giant.