This novel includes an aside in which the voice of Socrates declares that knowledge and beauty both lead into an abyss. When confronted with a desperate thirst, this novel's main character buys some overripe strawberries from a street vendor; earlier, he feels the urge to travel after seeing a red-headed stranger in a Munich cemetery. In this novel, a jester assures a writer that sirocco is the only plague to fear despite police disinfecting an Italian city for cholera. Gustav von Aschenbach becomes obsessed with the Polish boy Tadzio in, for 10 points, what Thomas Mann novel?
This novel includes an aside in which the voice of Socrates declares that knowledge and beauty both lead into an abyss. When confronted with a desperate thirst, this novel's main character buys some overripe strawberries from a street vendor; earlier, he feels the urge to travel after seeing a red-headed stranger in a Munich cemetery. In this novel, a jester assures a writer that sirocco is the only plague to fear despite police disinfecting an Italian city for cholera. Gustav von Aschenbach becomes obsessed with the Polish boy Tadzio in, for 10 points, what Thomas Mann novel?
This novel includes an aside in which the voice of Socrates declares that knowledge and beauty both lead into an abyss.