МИТ И ФЕДAР KAO ПРEДЛОШЦИ 3A CMPT У ВЕНЕЦИЈИ TOMACA MAHA
MYTH AND PHAEDRUS AS THE BASES FOR THOMAS MANN’S DEATH IN VENICE

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.

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