5/11/2023 0 Comments Author of death in venice![]() Even the same work, read by the same reader at different times (think King Lear) will feel different to the reader at different stages and ages. Both imperfect, both carrying their own history. All works differ, since they all are impacted by writer and reader. First, the introduction by Michael Cunningham is a fantastic introduction of the difficulties associated with translation. ![]() So, finding myself in a position where I really felt I could delay no longer, I started with his shorter work - Death in Venice. For me he has sat waiting like a distant leviathan or like death. I own a bunch of his works, in various translation, but keep finding reasons to walk another road, skip ahead, fall behhind. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd, and the forbidden.” ― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice I've been intimidated by Mann. ![]() ![]() “Solitude produces originality, bold & astonishing beauty, poetry. ![]()
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