Death in Venice: A New Translation Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism » (1st Edition)

Clayton Koelb is Guy B. Johnson Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the recipient of Guggenheim, Woodrow Wilson, and Danforth fellowships and the author of Thomas Mann’s "Goethe and Tolstoy," The Incredulous Reader: Literature and the Function of Disbelief, Kafka’s Rhetoric: The Passion of Reading, and Inventions of Reading: Rhetoric and the Literary Imagination. He has also edited several volumes of critical readings.

Clayton Koelb is Guy B. Johnson Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the recipient of Guggenheim, Woodrow Wilson, and Danforth fellowships and the author of Thomas Mann’s "Goethe and Tolstoy," The Incredulous Reader: Literature and the Function of Disbelief, Kafka’s Rhetoric: The Passion of Reading, and Inventions of Reading: Rhetoric and the Literary Imagination. He has also edited several volumes of critical readings.

Thomas Mann is widely acknowledged as the greatest German novelist of this century. His 1912 novella Death in Venice is the most frequently read example of Mann's early work.

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Mann's classic here gets a fresh interpretation from PEN Award-winning translator Neugroschel, who brings out more of the work's sensuality. Along with the title story, this edition includes "The Will for Happiness," "Tobias Mindernickel," "Tristan," "The Starvelings," and "Harsh Hour," among others.