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Buddenbrooks (1900) The Black Swan Death in Venice (1911) -- #1 of the 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels.
A middle-aged composer visits an Italian seaside resort where his infatuation with a young boy and the pleasures of pure beauty cause him to extend his stay despite warnings of a cholera epidemic. Explores the connection between Eros, pure beauty, decay and death. -- littlebluelight.com
By the movie: VHS DVD Loulou (1921) The Magic Mountain (1924)
A young bourgeois man visits his cousin in a mountain sanitarium where he 'falls ill' and struggles with the opposing forces of rationalism, faith, aestheticism, and common sense embodied by the other patients before rushing into WWI. Depicts the currents and forces swirling around the soul of pre- WWI Europe. -- littlebluelight.com Lotte in Weimar (1939)
A novelistic biography of Goethe. Die vertauschten Köpfe (1941) Confessions of Felix Krull: Confidence Man (1954) Doctor Faustus (1954)
A theological student turned composer who makes a pact with the devil for 24 years of musical genius in exchange for his soul and the ability to love his fellow man. A symbolic commentary on the destructive course Germany took to World War II. -- littlebluelight.com
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