He gets sick from eating bad strawberries and watches the Polish boy Tadzio on the beach before collapsing in his chair.
The narrator of this work reminisces about watching sand flow through an hourglass before remembering a white building with inscriptions and pitting his moral sense against the benefits of chaos. A two-part work inspired by this novella features a journalist who parties with Laura before another narrator, possibly the same man, visits Varanasi; that work is by Geoff Dyer. This novella's protagonist is an author who observes a "lady in pearls" and dreams about an orgy worshipping "the stranger god." This work's protagonist smells (*) disinfectant and is warned about sirocco, which is a cover-up for a cholera epidemic. He gets sick from eating bad strawberries and watches the Polish boy Tadzio on the beach before collapsing in his chair. For 10 points, name this novella about Gustav von Aschenbach's demise in the title city by Thomas Mann.
The narrator of this work reminisces about watching sand flow through an hourglass before remembering a white building with inscriptions and pitting his moral sense against the benefits of chaos.
Death in Venice [or Der Tod in Venedig]