Film and Literature. The Case of "Death in Venice": Luchino Visconti and Thomas Mann

1980 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Rudolf Vaget
1999 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Frederick A. Lubich ◽  
Naomi Ritter

Author(s):  
Bertrand Gervais

Tout peut servir de base à une figure, tout peut envoûter. Que ce soit une femme aperçue à une fenêtre, un objet fétichisé, une partie de sa propre anatomie, son nez ou ses mains. Dès l’instant où un objet est doté de signification, cette transfiguration lui attribue une aura qui n’est autre que le signe de sa désirabilité. Il s’agira dans cet article de s’arrêter à un exemple d’envoûtement, celui mis en scène dans La Mort à Venise de Thomas Mann. Gustave Aschenbach, l’écrivain mis en scène, tombe sous le charme de Tadzio, un jeune homme qui l’envoûtera, sans jamais se douter du rôle qu’il joue dans ce drame. Cet envoûtement ne sera pas passager, mais mortifère, car l’obsession pour Tadzio ira jusqu’à entraîner Aschenbach dans un état de perdition total, l’écrivain se laissant mourir dans une Venise infestée par le choléra asiatique. Je me servirai de cet exemple pour illustrer les mécanismes par lesquels nous nous dotons de figures.AbstractAnything can serve as the basis for a figure, anything can be spellbinding. Whether a woman seen at a window, a fetishized object, part of our own body, our nose or our hands. The moment an object has acquired some meaning, this transfiguration gives it an aura that is just the sign of its desirability. In this article, I will look at an example of bewitchment, the one staged in Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. Gustav Aschenbach, its hero, a writer in decline, falls under the spell of Tadzio, a young man who never suspects the role he plays in this drama. This obsession with Tadzio will lead Aschenbach to a state of total destruction, leaving the writer dying in a cholera-infested Venice. I will use this example to illustrate the mechanisms by which we create and give life to figures of the imagination.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronica Miranda Damasceno

The constitution of the crystal image corresponds to the most fundamental operation of time. In order to do so, it is necessary for time to separate, arise or happen, in two decimetric spurts, of which one of them makes pass the whole present and the other conserves all the past. Time consists precisely in this split, it is the one we see in a crystal. Crystal is the perpetual foundation of time. According to the perspective of the French thinker Gilles Deleuze, in Death in Venice, Luchino Visconti gives us to see the crystalline images according to their own decomposition. This is present throughout his work. In this film, we can see this decomposition, for example, through the plague that devastates Venice or even through the revelation that something arrived too late. When the character of the musician sees the young Tadzio, he has the vision of what lacked in his work: sensual beauty. The too late conditions the work of art and conditions its success, for the sensuous and sensual unity of nature with man is the essence of art par excellence, inasmuch as it is of its nature to occur too late!


Author(s):  
Crescenciano Grave

This paper analyzes the possibilities of artistic creation, of literature in particular, to provide our experience with ethical imagination. In three works of Thomas Mann —Tristan, Tonio Kröger and Death in Venice— the author shows the conflict of the artist in the modern world and its relationship with the ethical configuration of the existence. Hence, the central question is, how can language help in the configuration of our morality?


2017 ◽  

Als Regieassistent war der Sohn einer der ältesten Mailänder Adelsfamilien bei Jean Renoir in Paris in die Lehre gegangen. Noch im Italien Mussolinis drehte Luchino Visconti mit seinem Erstling "Ossessione" ("Besessenheit", 1943) den Initialfilm des italienischen Neorealismus, zu dessen Haupt- und Meisterwerken auch "La terra trema" ("Die Erde bebt", 1948) und "Rocco e i suoi fratelli" ("Rocco und seine Brüder", 1960) zählen. Zeigen diese Visconti eher von seiner politisch engagierten, kämpferischen Seite, so präsentiert sich der seit jeher einem detailversessenen Realismus verpflichtete Regisseur mit "Senso" ("Sehnsucht", 1954) und "Il gattopardo" ("Der Leopard", 1963) sowie der Thomas-Mann-Adaption "Morte a Venezia" ("Tod in Venedig", 1971) und "Ludwig" ("Ludwig II.", 1973), dem Biopic über Bayerns 'Märchenkönig', als Meister mondän-dekadenter Untergangsszenarien.


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