On a summer afternoon in Venice 1911, Thomas Mann was killing time on the beach at the Lido when he spied a Polish family that included a young blond boy in a sailor suit. Within a year, Mann ...

In search of the real Tadzio In the summer of 1911 a brief encounter with a Polish family inspired Thomas Mann to write Death in Venice, in which an elderly writer becomes infatuated with a ...

Death in Venice By sheer trick of time, Giles Havergal's gripping portrayal of a distinguished man undone by his illicit passion for a pretty boy conveys the gasping shock of immediacy.

Most books about the lives of real people who inspired literary creations not only give you nothing, they seem to take something away _ by asserting the primacy of fact they succeed only in ...

The book Thomas Mann is chiefly known for has often been called, by those out of the loop, a “gay Lolita“.His 1912 “Death in Venice” — hailed as a masterpiece of modern German lit and ...

Because many retirees live there, some cynics have called Florida “God’s waiting room.” In his 1971 film, director Luchino Visconti proposes another candidate for the title—Venice.

Ramsey Nasr, standing, as Aschenbach and Achraf Koutet as Tadzio in a rehearsal for “Death in Venice” in Amsterdam. Mr. Nasr also adapted Thomas Mann’s novella for the production.

If you thought Luchino Visconti’s 1971 film adaptation of Thomas Mann’s novella, “Death in Venice,” was hauntingly operatic, wait till you see the actual opera. In Chicago O… ...