This work includes prose lines that scan as Homeric verse and dream sequences invoking Plato's Phaedrus. One character in this work is the author of a novel about Frederick the Great, and suddenly feels a desire to travel after seeing a red-haired man in a cathedral doorway. The main character of this work is ferried by an 
This work includes prose lines that scan as Homeric verse and dream sequences invoking Plato's Phaedrus. One character in this work is the author of a novel about Frederick the Great, and suddenly feels a desire to travel after seeing a red-haired man in a cathedral doorway. The main character of this work is ferried by an unlicensed boatman, and is told that the disinfectant he smells is a precaution against the sirocco by the police. That protagonist dies while watching his beloved on the beach, having ignored warnings about cholera. For 10 points, Gustav von Aschenbach falls in love with the beautiful Polish boy Tadzio in the title Italian city of what Thomas Mann novella?
This work includes prose lines that scan as Homeric verse and dream sequences invoking Plato's Phaedrus.
Death in Venice [or Der Tod in Venedig]