# Kuolema Venetsiassa

By Thomas Mann.

"Kuolema Venetsiassa" by Thomas Mann is a novella published in 1912. Gustav von Aschenbach, a disciplined and celebrated writer in his fifties, travels to Venice seeking respite. There, he becomes increasingly obsessed with Tadzio, a beautiful Polish boy staying at his hotel. As Aschenbach's fixation deepens, he ignores mounting signs of danger in the city, surrendering his dignified restraint to pursue forbidden desire. Mann crafts a haunting tale of artistic passion, aging, and moral decay. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: Finnish
- Translator: Toini Kivimäki
- Subjects: Venice (Italy) -- Fiction; Psychological fiction; Parables; Homosexuality -- Fiction; Middle age -- Fiction

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