Death in Venice
In Our Time: Culture
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The Limits of Irony in the Novella
"I didn't feel that I felt throughout his sort of narcissistic interest and the narrator sympathy with him really lasted," says author. "The film version which we've discussed loses all sense of that so I think that is the sense of crisis that Thomas Mann is thematizing in the novella" The novel was first published in 1912 but left off after 1914 when world events took place.
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