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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