1 février 2013
Aina Marti, « Baroque and Modernism: Two Styles, Two Souls », For there she was..., ID : 10670/1.ahj48w
The narrator of Death in Venice suggests a very interesting and challenging topic. Among all the worries about art, so typical in Mann's novels, this one particularly presents a thoughtful question. Is the artistic style and form linked to morality? One could write pages and pages trying to reply and analyse such a dilemma, because it is a dilemma as far as such a reflection involves not just art but the whole of society. Gustav Aschenbach, the main character of the story, is an artist and as...