This paper is on Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice." It is an exposition of his own life experience, his response to certain incidents, secret longings and the extremes of those longings. His main character, Gustav von Aschebach, was himself, a prolific writer of his time and a disciplined man. The elements of the novella and Mann's life - the events in Aschenbach's sojourn in Venice, his weariness and self-restraint, the figuring of the young Tadzio, Aschenbach's overwhelming infatuation with Tadzio, the abandonment of his moral values and self-destruction -- are parallel, except in the end. The novella reveals Mann's homosexuality through Aschenbach's sensual fascination over Tadzio and the sublimation of that fascination into Platonic longing but overpowering, debilitating and even fatal, desire.
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