he reflected that to arrive by land, at the Venice railroad station, was like entering a palace through a back door, and that the only proper way to approach that most improbable of cities was that by which he had now come, by ship, across the open sea.” I especially loved his description of how to arrive in Venice He isn’t too sure where he wants to go and sets out for an island near Pola, Slovenia (today’s Pula), but it isn’t what he wants, so he decides to go to Venice, which he approaches from the sea. While trying to work on his next piece, but gets this strange feeling that he must get away and travel. He is a well known somewhat elderly writer, home educated and solitary. Gustav von Aschenbach is living alone in Munich in 1911. Translated from the German by Stanley Applebaum Book review - DEATH IN VENICE By Thomas Mann DEATH IN VENICE By Thomas Manm
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