Death in Venice
What is the author's style in Death in Venice by Thomas Mann?
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By liberally dosing his story with implicit and explicit allusions to Greek mythology, and by incorporating Platonic dialogues into a realistic story, Mann highlights von Aschenbach's love of classicism and antiquity. Such references also make the story, for a 1912 readership, more palatable, as they lessen the impact of Mann's exploration of same sex, inter-generational erotic love.