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The real Tadzio : Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice' and the boy who inspired it

Adair, Gilbert2001
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Whilst visiting Venice in 1911 Thomas Mann's eye was drawn to a young sailor-suited boy of almost supernatural beauty and was inspired to write Death in Venice. This is a biography of that boy who may have been a Polish man called Wladyslaw Moes.
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