![]() ![]() This ‘personal and lyrical experience’, as Mann later described it in a much quoted confessional letter, prompted the story Death in Venice. While staying in Venice with his wife and brother between 26 May and 2 June 1911, Thomas Mann, like his fictional Aschenbach, was fascinated by a handsome Polish boy whom he watched playing on the beach (Aldrich 1). ![]() The book is based on a real life incident. In fact, the book has been made into a film and an opera all of which work towards an acceptance of homosexuality into the common culture. It does not seem to make a direct plea nor does it cause a public scandal. Mann, in his book, is balanced in its judgment of homosexual passion. Death in Venice (1912) by Thomas Mann has been recognized in social terms, as a classic of Greek homoeroticism. Mann handles homosexuality as an object of sublimation.īut he does not express it directly but rather through recursive persistent ways that give it the element of real passion. Heilbut holds that homoerotic passion is the main driver of Mann’s life and works from beginning to end (Robertson 95). ![]() He wrote of it in a very subtle manner which has received considerable attention from recent literary experts such as Anthony Heilbut. Homosexuality has always played a role in the writings of Thomas Mann. ![]()
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