The protagonist of this story tries to avoid an old man from Pola whose dentures fall out of place as he shouts "Our very best to your sweetheart!"
The protagonist of this story tries to avoid an old man from Pola whose dentures fall out of place as he shouts "Our very best to your sweetheart!" That old man resembles other characters, including a street entertainer and a man seen in the doorway of a mortuary chapel in Munich. The protagonist, the author of "The Wretched Man" and a prose epic about Frederick the Great, loses his luggage after arriving at the Hotel des Bains on Lido. The sweetish smell of disinfectant haunts him, and he becomes ill by eating some overripe strawberries. Finally, he is summoned to his fate by Tadzio, the Polish boy with whom he has fallen in love. FTP, name this Thomas Mann short story centering on Gustav von Aschenbach and his demise in an Italian city.
The protagonist of this story tries to avoid an old man from Pola whose dentures fall out of place as he shouts "Our very best to your sweetheart!"
"Death in Venice" or "Der Tod in Venedig"