Death In Venice
Thomas Mann
This book isn't like any books or stories that I have read. This wasn't a true or a realistic fiction of any kind, which are the types of books that I am acquainted with, so this book was a new enjoyment.
At first, when I was reading this short book, it didn't really made much sense and I was having troubling understanding the plot. The reason being that I thought this was another same type of books that I usually read, realistic-fiction, and does not have a lot of thinking elements. (It just has the plot, instead of a lot of symbolism and putting things together). So, because of this, I was very confused. For example, when the main character, was in love with a beautiful boy that he saw in a hotel. I was very confused by this while I was reading it, until I got to the end, when I read this book again, this time not as much trying to understand the plot, because I already knew (about the plaque and the death at the end), but instead, this time trying to replace many things that were symbols or what they could represent.
Death in Venice (film)
Thomas Mann Chamisso 1911
Steam vessel and GUSTAV passing through Glebe Isla...When I did this, this short book made much more sense and I therefore I liked this new type of style. I understood almost everything, and finally when I had read this book over again, I understood what the author was trying to express to the reader or the moral. This is the summary of the book, I didn't try mixing up my symbolism that came out when I read the short book the second time and tried to put connections from the beginning to the end, with the actual summary or plot of the book, which is what...