To the darling, the sweet darling!"
One fleeting character in this work is an old man from Pola whose dentures fall out as he yells "To the darling, the sweet darling!" The protagonist of this work wrote the work The Wretched Man and a prose epic about Frederick the Great. That protagonist is sickened by the smell of disinfectant and later becomes sick when he eats some bad strawberries. The title event occurs when the protagonist is observing the Polish boy he loves, Tadzio. For 10 points, name this novel about Gustav van Aschenbach's demise in an Italian city.
One fleeting character in this work is an old man from Pola whose dentures fall out as he yells "
Death in Venice [or Der Tod in Venedig]