Time and Place in Death in Venice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20656096 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wolfgang Leppmann (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 66 |
| Publication date | 1975-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The German Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8831 • E-ISSN: 1756-1183 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/403441 |
| OpenAlex | W2321046578 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
When reading Death in Venice one is struck not only by the skill with which Mann tells his story, but on occasion also by the classicity of that story and of his manner of telling it. Is this work only sixty-odd years old, one is sometimes tempted to ask, or is it not rather a relic of an age that is immeasurably far removed from us in all but chronological date? An age in which the author of a realistically conceived story could dismiss the economic basis of life with the remark that the protagonist had written home for ample funds?' An age in which the craft of writing could be likened, in full seriousness despite the ironic undertones, to a display of military skills? An age in which a most delicately described homoerotic attachment was tantamount, in the eyes of some early critics, to a wicked aberration punished by the penal code and a perilous passion . . . forbidden and reprehensible?2 An age (to continue in a lighter vein suggested by the enormous trunk containing Aschenbach's belongings in the Visconti movie) in which it was possible to travel in Italy with more luggage than one could conveniently carry oneself
Art · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |