MYTH AND PHAEDRUS AS THE BASES FOR THOMAS MANN’S DEATH IN VENICE Cover Image

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MYTH AND PHAEDRUS AS THE BASES FOR THOMAS MANN’S DEATH IN VENICE

Author(s): Lidija Bošković
Subject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, German Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Матица српска
Keywords: Thomas Mann; German literature;

Summary/Abstract: Thomas Mann’s novel Death in Venice is based on some specific myths (on Apollo, Dionysus, Eros, Ganymede, Narcissus, Hyacinthus), on the mythical type of thinking and organization o f narration (ideas about death; transfer of the same symbolic meaning in formally different stories) and on Plato’s dialogues, primarily Phaedrus. Mann artfully chose Plato as a basis for his novel, because this enabled him, on the one hand, to create associations with some situations in Phaedrus in the plot, and on the other to establish a parallel between his own (auto)poetics and Plato’s philosophy (esthetics, ontology). Plato’s theory o f „rememering” appeared to be an adequate model for Mann’s concept of artistic creation, which certainly further motivated Mann’s inter-textual game.

  • Issue Year: 51/2003
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 123-160
  • Page Count: 38
  • Language: Serbian
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