Death in Venice

"Well-known for his superb translations of Czech and Russian literature, especially Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Michael Henry Heim is just as good working from German; his translation is crisp and deft, and it skillfully conveys the detached yet terrible momentum of the story."—New York Sun

Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a su...