The Highest Being Drawn Down into Decadence

The German poet Stefan George lamented the fact that inDer Tod in Venedig“the highest is drawn down into the realm of decadence” (Mann,Letters96) (“sei das Höchste in die Sphäre des Verfalls hinabgezogen”; Mann,Briefe179). Of course, the problem that George actually had with the novella was that it...

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Zusammenfassung:	The German poet Stefan George lamented the fact that inDer Tod in Venedig“the highest is drawn down into the realm of decadence” (Mann,Letters96) (“sei das Höchste in die Sphäre des Verfalls hinabgezogen”; Mann,Briefe179). Of course, the problem that George actually had with the novella was that it did nothing to bring “the highest”—George believed the love between an older and younger man to be the highest form of love—out of the realm of decadence, to which many commentators had already consigned it for some time. Mann’s seemed yet another voice that either