[Download ebook] Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures)
·•●- Philip Kitcher ·•●-
| #1997036 in Books | 2013-11-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.10 x1.10 x6.10l,1.15 | File Name: 0231162642 | 280 pages
||6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| An intriguing inquiry into the relationships among novella, film and opera|By Michael Greenebaum|This is a fascinating, and sometimes infuriating, book. Real and fictive people, past and present, music and text all co-exist in an imagined space in which they can inform and elucidate one another. The use of one work of fiction to explicate another is common enough, as is the||Philip Kitcher's book is a profession of love: for Mann's novella, for Mahler's music, and for the commitment to ideas and reflections on life that a certain current of German culture represented in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. One senses tha
Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a philosophical perspective, Philip Kitcher connects the predicament of the novella's central character to Western thought's most compelling questions.
In Mann's story, the author Gustav von Aschenbach becomes captiv...
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