For 10 points, what character lusts a⧔er the Polish boy Tadzio before perishing in Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice?
This man idolizes the "intellectual and virginal manliness" exempli⢄ed by St. Sebastian and lives by the motto "Durchhalten," or "persevere," which he borrowed from Frederick the Great. A barber tells this man that "we are all as old as we feel, but no older," in an effort to sell him hair dye. A boatman who ferries this man but refuses to tell him the cost, instead only ominously saying "you will pay," is one of several redheaded men who menace him. He has a dream about the "stranger god" a⧔er becoming obsessed with a guest at the hotel in which he is staying. A⧔er seeing Jasiu (YAH-shoo) win a ⢄ght on the beach, this man dies of cholera contracted from overripe strawberries. For 10 points, what character lusts a⧔er the Polish boy Tadzio before perishing in Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice?
This man idolizes the "intellectual and virginal manliness" exempli⢄ed by St. Sebastian and lives by the motto "Durchhalten," or "persevere," which he borrowed from Frederick the Great.
Gustav von Aschenbach [accept either underlined portion]