Thomas Mann
Series
Criterion collection volume 962
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach takes a convalescent holiday at the Venice Lido after the death of his child and the disastrous reception of his new compositions. Bored, he indulges an idle, whimsical, faintly epicurean interest in a beautiful boy sporting on the beach.