La montaña mágica - Thomas Mann - Bog

"Gustav Aschenbach, "ash stream" in German, is a well-known mature writer. He comes to Venice in search of inspiration, but also to fill his days with aesthetic reflections in an idyllic setting. At the hotel he meets Tadzio, a young Polish man who is on vacation with his family. The boy becomes an object of desire and adoration; an ideal and impossible love based on aesthetic contemplation and that will lead Aschenbach to renounce everything, including himself. "There is, between the chinks of that story, an abyss that it reveals and that we immediately identify in ourselves."--Publisher's description.