Death in Venice

Thomas wrote this nonfiction work delicate in the first stage of his literary life, specifically in 1911, at a time when it was not yet the turn gets in the path of intellectual and humanitarian, towards democracy and progress. However, it is possible to say that the general features of literature “Man” find a fertile and dense ground. We are Agdon in this production of deep pessimism that has inherited “Man” for Schopenhauer a proposal presumptuously death and the prestige of nothingness, as the benefit of the impatience deportee vision and refinement psychological superstar that was Thomas Mann admired by the Nietzsche, the four basic concepts that identified the German spirit through literature through centuries, culture, music, Nina and Protestant sense of duty.