Death in Venice/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Alternate Aesop Interpretation: One young homosexual man wrote to Thomas Mann in some anxiety after reading the book, asking if Mann had intended in it to condemn homosexuality. Mann wrote back that this had not been his intention, that he respected homosexual feeling and that it was far from alien to his own experience.
  • Squick: Self-explanatory.
  • True Art Is Angsty