A character in this novel is delighted by a boy's dislike for a Russian family and learns that his name is pronounced with a long "u" sound.
A character in this novel is delighted by a boy's dislike for a Russian family and learns that his name is pronounced with a long "u" sound. In this novel, an unlicensed driver ignores the protagonist's request to be taken to a steamer-landing. The protagonist of this novel imagines himself as Socrates lecturing Phaedrus about love after having a barber paint his cheeks, paralleling the makeup worn by an old man in a wig he had seen earlier. In this (*) novella, an Englishman warns the main character about the cover-up of an outbreak of cholera. After eating ripe strawberries, its protagonist expires on the beach while watching the Polish boy Tadzio. For 10 points, name this novella in which Gustav von Aschenbach dies in an Italian city, a work of Thomas Mann.
A character in this novel is delighted by a boy's dislike for a Russian family and learns that his name is pronounced with a long "u" sound.
Death in Venice [or Der Tod in Venedig]