Shelf Awareness and Sourcebooks have teamed up to launch #ReadIndieForward, a pay-it-forward campaign to support indie bookstores and share the joys of reading. Death in Venice is available as part of a Penguin Classics collection featuring 11 of Mann's other short stories: "Tonio Kroger," "Gladius Dei," "The Blood of the Walsungs," "The Will for Happiness," "Little Herr Friedmann," "Tobias Mindernickel," "Little Lizzy," "Tristan," "The Starvelings," "The Wunderkind" and "Harsh Hour." It was published in 1999 ($14, 9780141181738). Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature, also wrote Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Lotte in Weimar and Doctor Faustus. That boy-Baron Władysław Moes-did not learn he was the real Tadzio until seeing the 1971 film adaption of Death in Venice. The story is based in part on a trip Mann took to Venice in 1911, where he eyed a little Polish boy from afar. As the epidemic quietly consumes Venice, Aschenbach repeatedly encounters his object of desire without making contact.
The writer, Gustav von Aschenbach, a man in his early 50s, becomes gradually obsessed with a young Polish boy named Tadzio. Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice (1912) follows a writer suffering from writer's block in Venice during a cholera epidemic.
Dave Wheeler, associate editor, Shelf Awareness And I am especially drawn to Scott's wry playfulness, his subversive jokes and alternate histories that build into a work of pure black excellence. "Morrison's rendering of Sethe's infanticide," in Beloved (Vintage, $16), for example, hunted down after fleeing on the Underground Railroad, "is not about the murder but the white imagination that makes that murder necessary," Jackson writes.īut it is the black imagination that truly shines in these books. open Morrison's work to explore the experiences of black people in a society confined by the white imagination. of Wisconsin Press, $17.95), as she discusses a campus game popular with her college students: Manhunt, "a cross between tag, The Hunger Games, and Dungeons and Dragons." When she asks the (mostly white) classroom if black people can play, they reply no, "black people running with pretend weapons would attract the campus police." Plus, there's the brutal history of black people being hunted in this country. out the back." At night, they revive the tradition in a bougie white neighborhood-but there are tragic consequences.Ĭassandra Jackson expounds on the racial stakes of play at one point in the multi-authored memoir The Toni Morrison Book Club (Univ. "While white folks, or even a house slave, answered the front door, there'd be black folk taking bread and hog meat.
Tyrone is a doctoral candidate, and his thesis speculates about the game's historical significance as a diversion tactic to help the enslaved steal from plantation owners or flee via the Underground Railroad.
In the second story, two estranged friends reconnect over a childhood game, a variation of ding-dong ditch referred to by a reclaimed slur. I was in for something spectacular the moment I began reading The World Doesn't Require You (Liveright, $25.95), the second fiction collection by Rion Amilcar Scott.
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