5/31/2023 0 Comments Novel death in venice![]() ![]() In its turn, this prompted novel’s main character to embark upon the trip to a foreign land as the ultimate mean of expanding his intellectual horizons, with Venice becoming the choice for trip’s destination, due to this city’s geographic proximity: “What he was looking for was the unfamiliar and unrelated, which was indeed reached rather easily” (11). Even though Aschenbach was able to gain social prominence as an accomplished writer, he continued to think of his life’s purpose as such that has not been realized yet. Apparently, despite Aschenbach’s advanced age, his strongly defined sense of idealism never ceased affecting his attitudes towards surrounding reality. ![]() However, Aschenbach felt as if something important was missing in his life. According to author, Aschenbach was: “Too much occupied with the duties imposed by his ego and the European soul, too overburdened with the duty of production, too little interested in distracting himself to be a faithful lover of that gay outside world” (4). As it appears from the novel, before deciding to take a trip to Venice, novel’s main character Gustav Aschenbach used to profess essentially Nordic (Apollonian) values of self-restraint, intellectual exaltation, discipline and existential idealism. ![]()
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