#Death in Venice

[daweyt]

Thomas Mann, from “Death in Venice”, originally published c. 1912.

[aseaofquotes]

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

[sesiondemadrugada]

Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti, 1971).

[amicus-noctis]

“In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.” ― Thomas Mann

Painting: La Repubblica-Firenze – Francesco Chiacchio (2010/12)

[polishtumplrboy]

[pacinos]

DIRK BOGARDE

Morte a Venezia (1971) | dir. Luchino Visconti

[madgeitboy]

bjorn andresen by suehiro maruo

[officialpenisenvy]

Riyoko Ikeda on Björn Andrésen's role in inspiring the bishonen archetype and the works of Year 24 mangaka

(from The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, 2021)

[fayegonnaslay]

70s It-Girl Marisa Berenson, "The Queen of The Jet Set".

Dubbed an “It Girl” by Yves Saint Laurent in the early 1970s, Marisa Berenson is the original modern muse-inspiring fashion designers, photographers, stylists, and fashion editors for over thirty years.

[cinematicjourney]

Death in Venice (1971) | dir. Luchino Visconti

[papering-the-wall]

Death In Venice Japanese book cover

Japanese Magazine Kinema Junpo 1971 September Issue

[beingharsh]

Death in Venice (1971), dir. Luchino Visconti

[newvision]

— Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

[alfredsnightmare]

Death in Venice (Tony Palmer, 1981)

[lisamarie-vee]

[dreadfuldevotee]

I didn't mean to go down this rabbit-hole but now I need to exhume Anne Rice and shake her until she tells me if Armand is based on Tadzio/Bjorn Andreson because I swear to god these are the same story. A teenaged boy being pursued and taken advantaged of by older men who do not care about his mental or physical well-being? Objectified and reduced to this ideal, androgynous beauty that infantilizes them and strips them of their burgeoning manhood? That youthful beauty being immortalized forever, against their will? The Venice and Paris of it all???? There is too much going on here for it to be a coincidence