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Tadzio handsome Polish boy exerts a fatal attraction for an elderly writer. [Ger. Lit.: Thomas Mann Death in Venice] See : Beauty, Masculine How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This Tadzio rushes about the stage like a rain-fed stream glowing in the sun. Aschenbach is obsessed with beauty, which extends to an angelic blond Italian boy named Tadzio (Bjorn Andersen) who he follows through the city. I had devoured its 60-odd pages as a high school senior, thrilling to the story of the writer Aschenbach and his intense longing for the adolescent Polish boy Tadzio, and had revisited the story only once, a few years later, via the overwrought film adaptation directed by Luchino Visconti. |
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