"Death in Venice, " tells about a ruinous quest for love and beauty amid degenerating splendor.
In his novella "Tonio Kroger, " Mann poetical.
Spellbound by a beautiful Polish boy, he finds himself fettered to this hypnotic city of sun-drenched sensuality and eerie physical decay as it gradually succumbs to a secret epidemic.
Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but lonely author, travels to the Queen of the Adriatic in search of an elusive spiritual fulfillment that turns into his erotic doom. "Death in Venice, " tells about a ruinous quest for love and beauty amid degenerating splendor