Death in Venice
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Death in Venice is a 1912 novella by Thomas Mann that explores themes of beauty, obsession, and decay through the story of an aging writer’s infatuation with a young boy in cholera-stricken Venice.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Death in Venice canonical | 12 |
| Death in Venice (1912) | 1 |
| Death in Venice (1971 film) | 1 |
| Death in Venice (opera) | 1 |
| Der Tod in Venedig | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T335052 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Death in Venice Context triple: [Thomas Mann, notableWork, Death in Venice]
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The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain is a landmark 1924 novel by Thomas Mann that follows a young man's extended stay in a Swiss sanatorium to explore themes of time, illness, and the intellectual currents of pre–World War I Europe.
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B.
Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann that chronicles the decline of a wealthy German merchant family across several generations and helped establish him as a major figure in modern literature.
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C.
The Confessions of Felix Krull
The Confessions of Felix Krull is a picaresque novel by Thomas Mann that humorously chronicles the rise of a charming con artist through society by means of deception and role‑playing.
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D.
La Grenouillère
La Grenouillère is an 1869 Impressionist painting by Claude Monet depicting a lively riverside bathing and boating resort on the Seine near Bougival, France.
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E.
The Blessed Damozel
The Blessed Damozel is a famous 19th-century poem and later painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti that epitomizes the romantic, medievalizing, and spiritually charged aesthetic of the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Death in Venice Target entity description: Death in Venice is a 1912 novella by Thomas Mann that explores themes of beauty, obsession, and decay through the story of an aging writer’s infatuation with a young boy in cholera-stricken Venice.
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A.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain is a landmark 1924 novel by Thomas Mann that follows a young man's extended stay in a Swiss sanatorium to explore themes of time, illness, and the intellectual currents of pre–World War I Europe.
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B.
Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann that chronicles the decline of a wealthy German merchant family across several generations and helped establish him as a major figure in modern literature.
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C.
The Confessions of Felix Krull
The Confessions of Felix Krull is a picaresque novel by Thomas Mann that humorously chronicles the rise of a charming con artist through society by means of deception and role‑playing.
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D.
La Grenouillère
La Grenouillère is an 1869 Impressionist painting by Claude Monet depicting a lively riverside bathing and boating resort on the Seine near Bougival, France.
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E.
The Blessed Damozel
The Blessed Damozel is a famous 19th-century poem and later painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti that epitomizes the romantic, medievalizing, and spiritually charged aesthetic of the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novella ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
Death in Venice
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Death in Venice (1971 film)
Death in Venice self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Death in Venice (opera)
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| author | Thomas Mann ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Tadzio ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | Luchino Visconti ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | serial publication ⓘ |
| firstPublicationLanguage | German ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Die Neue Rundschau ⓘ |
| genre |
modernist literature
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novella ⓘ philosophical fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ tragedy ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationGenre |
film
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opera ⓘ |
| hasMotive |
artistic crisis
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travel ⓘ |
| hasSymbol |
Venetian Lagoon
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surface form:
Venetian lagoon
cholera epidemic ⓘ the boy Tadzio as ideal beauty ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Greek mythology ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Gustav von Aschenbach ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor | exploration of aestheticism and moral decline ⓘ |
| operaComposer | Benjamin Britten ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
Death in Venice
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Der Tod in Venedig
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| plotSummary | An aging writer becomes infatuated with a beautiful Polish boy while a cholera epidemic spreads in Venice. ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation |
author
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writer ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1912 ⓘ |
| publisher | S. Fischer Verlag ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Italy ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Venice ⓘ |
| theme |
Apollonian and Dionysian conflict
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art and aesthetics ⓘ beauty ⓘ death ⓘ decay ⓘ disease ⓘ homoerotic desire ⓘ obsession ⓘ repression ⓘ |
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Subject: Death in Venice Description of subject: Death in Venice is a 1912 novella by Thomas Mann that explores themes of beauty, obsession, and decay through the story of an aging writer’s infatuation with a young boy in cholera-stricken Venice.
Referenced by (16)
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