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No Grandi Navi a Venezia !
Der Tod in Venedig (Thomas Mann, 1912) / Morte a Venezia (Luchino Vischonti, 1971) / The Death in Venice (Benjamin Britten, 1973)
Images and perceptions that might easily be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions occupy him unduly; they are heightened in the silence, gain in significance, turn into experience, adventure, emotion. Solitude begets originality, bold and disconcerting beauty, poetry.
by Thomas Mann
Taken at Dead Venice
In questi mesi di quarantena ho letto “La montagna incantata” e sto leggendo "I Buddenbrook": due meravigliosi romanzi di Thomas Mann. Così ho ricordato i giorni che trascorsi a Lubecca nel 2012. La sala ritratta in questa fotografia si trova nella Buddenbrookhaus, la casa che appartenne alla famiglia di Thomas Mann e ospitò la ditta della famiglia.
In questa casa Thomas Mann ambientò il romanzo “I Buddenbrook”.
Qui ora è possibile visitare una mostra permanente dedicata agli scrittori Thomas e Heinrich Mann.
www.repubblica.it/viaggi/2009/02/28/news/la_casa_dei_budd...
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In these lockdown months I have read "The Magic Mountain." and am reading "Buddenbrooks": two wonderful novels by Thomas Mann. So I remembered the days I spent in Lubeck in 2012. The room shown in this photograph is inside the Buddenbrookhaus, the building belonged to the Thomas Mann family who housed the offices of the family firm.
In this house Thomas Mann set the novel "Buddenbrooks".
Here you can visit a permanent exhibition dedicated to Thomas and Heinrich Mann.
The Magic Mountain - Der Zauberberg - is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature. In part, the work reflected Mann's experiences and impressions during a period when his wife, who was suffering from a lung complaint, resided at Dr. Friedrich Jessen's Waldsanatorium in Davos, Switzerland for several months.
Jewelry
I love wearing it, especially earrings. One of my favorites comes from New Orleans, LA based artist Thomas Mann. A 4 cm long mermaid , one of two, photographed in the bright sun between another pair of dangle earrings that have blue tubular crystals. The little fresh water pearl is her belly button, and just below it, the tail dangles from the body by a silver pin, so it moves. They are made of metals, silver, brass and copper.
I love how the sun refracted the light on the silver , and around the frame. And yes, they need to be cleaned, something I will be doing later today , but for the pic, the patinas worked out well :)
Enjoy your week my friends and HMM!
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
textures by Shana Rae {Florabella Collection}
bracelet by Thomas Mann
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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Aldous Huxley
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman
I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.
Shel Silverstein
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Johnson
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe, and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
The Buddenbrook House, former home of the writers Thomas and Heinrich Mann.
Now a museum dedicated to this family of writers
Das Buddenbrook-Haus ist Schauplatz des Romans "Buddenbrooks" des Schriftstellers Thomas Mann, für den er 1929 den Literaturnobelpreis erhalten hat - The Buddenbrook House is the setting for the novel “Buddenbrooks” by the writer Thomas Mann, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929 (Lübeck, Germany)
No Sign of Tadzio! But Where else on Earth might Gustav von Aschenbach have died more blissfully? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_Venice ; www.independent.co.uk/…/in-search-of-the-real-tadzio…
I trust the 'murky, somewhat 'muddy' appearance of the water conveys the gloom and doom of the plague that Thomas Mann crafted with such fictional brilliance......?
The Magic Mountain - Der Zauberberg - is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature. In part, the work reflected Mann's experiences and impressions during a period when his wife, who was suffering from a lung complaint, resided at Dr. Friedrich Jessen's Waldsanatorium in Davos, Switzerland for several months.
The Magic Mountain - Der Zauberberg - is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature. In part, the work reflected Mann's experiences and impressions during a period when his wife, who was suffering from a lung complaint, resided at Dr. Friedrich Jessen's Waldsanatorium in Davos, Switzerland for several months.
The Magic Mountain - Der Zauberberg - is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature. In part, the work reflected Mann's experiences and impressions during a period when his wife, who was suffering from a lung complaint, resided at Dr. Friedrich Jessen's Waldsanatorium in Davos, Switzerland for several months.
The Magic Mountain - Der Zauberberg - is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature. In part, the work reflected Mann's experiences and impressions during a period when his wife, who was suffering from a lung complaint, resided at Dr. Friedrich Jessen's Waldsanatorium in Davos, Switzerland for several months.
"The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his thoughts are deeper, odder and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions that could be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy him unduly, become more intense in the silence, become significant, become an experience, an adventure, an emotion. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.” - From "Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann
(essere sospesi, non stare appesi)
Nida, Penisola di Neringa, Lituania, agosto 2008.
Ricordo di un pomeriggio magico, passato in riva al mare, lontana dal gruppo. Mi ero appena recata in "pellegrinaggio" alla casa che Thomas Mann si era fatto costruire, incantato da quei luoghi , dopo aver vinto il Premio Nobel. Ci aveva passato quattro estati con la famiglia , a scrivere. Una casa in legno semplice come questa.
L'ho invidiato , si', io piccola italiana ho invidiato il genio per la vista sul mare di cui godeva quella casa, per la tranquillità di quel posto, per l'atmosfera unica che gli aveva consentito di creare, di scrivere un'altra opera importante - che ancora non ho letto :-)
Esco dalla casa e riprendo il cammino sul lungomare. Vedo i panni stesi...
(essere sospesi, non stare appesi)
www.schatzalp.ch/p.cfm?s=2&lan=1&pf=1
Davos and The Magic Mountain
On July 7, 1935, Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann stood together at Harvard University to receive the school's honorary Doctor of Letters award.
By this time, both were Nobel laureates, Einstein in 1921 for physics and Mann in 1929 for literature. Both received their early education in Munich; both fled Germany for Switzerland. Both had ties to the ETH Zürich, which today houses the Thomas Mann Archives. Both fled to the United States to escape the Nazis: Einstein in 1933 and Mann in 1938. Later, they were neighbors in Princeton, New Jersey.
When Mann fled Germany for Zürich, he had already made the alpine sanatorium of Davos the basis for the fictional Berghof sanatorium in The Magic Mountain, published in 1924. He got to know the place when his wife spent six months there in 1912 seeking the salubrious effects of high altitude for a lung condition.
Today, Davos, several hours drive southeast of Zürich, is a world-famous ski resort, international conference center for the likes of the World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization, and watering hole for venture capitalists with an eye out for the "new new thing," as the high-tech billionaire Jim Clark might put it. It is worlds away from The Magic Mountain's combined hospital and health farm for patients with tuberculosis.
The book is about a heroic quest for knowledge -- in the tradition of the search for the Holy Grail, but in the oppressive atmosphere of an institution which was commonplace in its day, the tuberculosis sanatorium.
Hans Castorp, the protagonist, goes to the elegant sanatorium in Davos to visit his cousin. Intending to stay for no more than a brief vacation following his engineering exams, he is diagnosed as having tuberculosis and ends up staying there for seven years.
Mann's three weeks' stay at Davos were enough to convince him of "the dangers of such a milieu for young people -- and tuberculosis is a disease of the young," Mann wrote of his novel in The Atlantic Monthly in 1953. "You will have got from my book an idea of the narrowness of this charmed circle of isolation and invalidism. It is a sort of substitute existence, and it can, in a relatively short time, wholly wean a young person from actual and active life. Everything there, including the conception of time, is thought of on a luxurious scale.
"The cure is always a matter of several months, often of several years. But after the first six months the young person has not a single idea left save flirtation and the thermometer under his tongue. After the second six months in many cases he has even lost the capacity of any other ideas. He will become completely incapable of life in the flatland."
Mann observed that such institutions as the Berghof "were a typical pre-war phenomenon. They were only possible in a capitalistic economy that was still functioning well and normally. Only under such a system was it possible for patients to remain there year after year at the family's expense.
"The Magic Mountain became a swan song of that form of existence. Perhaps it is a general rule that epics descriptive of some particular phase of life tend to appear as it nears its end. The treatment of tuberculosis has entered upon a different phase today; and most of the Swiss sanatoria have become sports hotels."
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann.
Macro Monday theme: My Favourite Novel (Fiction)
HMM
Canon IXUS 265 HS
The Magic Mountain - Der Zauberberg - is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature. In part, the work reflected Mann's experiences and impressions during a period when his wife, who was suffering from a lung complaint, resided at Dr. Friedrich Jessen's Waldsanatorium in Davos, Switzerland for several months.
Improbable, to say the least.........if we didn't already know Venice existed, had never seen pictures, never read "Death in Venice", knew nothing of the history of the people fleeing the barbarian invasions of the 5th & 6th C. A city in a lagoon, made up of 118 islands, 150 canals & 410 bridges! A city with no roads, no wheeled vehicles, not even sidewalks on vast sections of both the grand canal & the small inner-city canals. Open the door......and only water. It would be far-fetched to even imagine it. But there it is. It exists. Sad to say, it's been taken over by tourism. Only 61,500 permanent residents remain in the city of Venice. And decreasing at a rate of 1,000 a year. Another 200,000+ live on the mainland . Many commute to the islands daily, a great many of them working in the service industry. There's a train station. They flood in in the morning, they ebb out at night. The tourists are legion. But it is possible to find the quiet still Venice of the locals. They live in a fascinating maze of backstreets & alleys & small district squares. And they step from one tiny island to the next by small arched stone bridges over narrow winding canals. An ancient world it is. A mystical inner waterworld that is both a joy and an education to discover and explore.
explore #116
best View Large On Black
For Ilse :-)
Der Zauberer wäre wohl sehr befremdet gewesen von dieser Darstellung seiner selbst im Buddenbrook-Haus. Frau und Kinder hätten amüsiert gekichert...
Bj. 1758
Built in 1758
Das berühmte Haus, in dem Thomas Manns „Buddenbrooks" spielt.
The house of famous German novelist Thomas Mann´s family in which his best known book "Buddenbrooks" is set.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddenbrookhaus#Geschichte_des_Hauses
Lübeck 2018
Por Ignacio Caballero García y Blanca Gago Domínguez.
Acerca del libro / El libro en La Central
Diseño de la portada: Miguel R. Cabot
The bonds of love will be with
not cut through death.
Die Bande der Liebe werden mit
dem Tod nicht durchschnitten.
Thomas Mann
I've been messing about during the Flickr downtime with a crop of 'Atlanta High Museum 2'. What's the general opinion ?
Aschenbach notò con meraviglia la bellezza perfetta di questo viso.
Il volto pallido e gentilmente assorto, incorniciato dai capelli biondo miele, la linea schietta del naso, la bocca vezzosa, l’espressione soave e divina di gravità ricordavano le sculture greche dell’epoca aurea; e alla pura compiutezza dell’aspetto si univa una grazia così rara e insigne che lo scrittore si confessò di non aver mai veduto, né in natura né in alcun prodotto delle arti figurative, un simile capolavoro.
Thomas Mann, Der Tod in Venedig, cap. 1
Waldhotel
Das Waldhotel Davos war Vorbild für das Sanatorium in Thomas Manns „Zauberberg“, bis heute ist es durch seine einzigartige Lage das perfekte Haus für alle, die Entspannung und Abstand vom Alltag suchen.
Die Angst vor Ansteckung und Tod war groß im Jahr 1912, als die Schriftstellergattin Katia Mann in einem Zimmer ihren Lungenkatarrh auskurierte. „Waldsanatorium“ hieß das heutige „Waldhotel Davos“ damals, eine auf Lungenleiden spezialisierte Klinik.
Die Lungenkrankheit, grassierte damals überall. Die Krankheit wurde auch als Schwindsucht bezeichnet. Auch mein Großvater, väterlicherseits, starb an dieser Krankheit in Hinterpommern.
this work is in:
www.tacobooks.com/autor/thomas_mann
Flickriver: Most interesting photos tagged with zattere:
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07.09. Venezia, le Zattere
to TEDJE, CATCAD, RICH EYE and TIM : in the original shot i captured a very big ferry entering in the harbour of Venezia ... all the people sitting in a cafè on the water (cafè named Nico in a place named Zattere) wose so little and i had an impressive feeling of bewilrderment....and i seen my life like a war because i wose sad and confused in those moments of my existence...
Venezia is a beauiful sad city to my eyes and she give me -always- a memory of a masterpiece film by Luchino Visconti with the music of Mahler inspired to an another masterpiece, a book that THomas Mann wrote about an impossible love...
Anyway the life is so strange and changeable and sometimes a food looks like the Nirvana : so i invite you to taste in the Nico cafe a great special sweet ice cream named GIANDUIOTTO....chocolate with chantilly crème...a dream of palate
L'homme sans qualités ~ Le Louvre ~ Paris ~ MjYj
FIAC 2009
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Als zusammengesetztes/stitched Panorama. Nach zweimaligem reinklicken kann man noch mehr Einzelheiten erkennen.
After clicking twice, you can see even more details.
To see Venice.The desire that took me to Italy in the first place. The city that defied expectation & delivered magic. 118 islands, 150 canals & 410 bridges. No roads, no cars, or bicycles, or scooters ( hugely popular in Rome & Florence). The only wheels seen were on a few baby carriages. Walking is the sole mode of transport when not traversing the waters by boat. The Grand Canal, the main thoroughfare that snakes through the city, has only 3 bridges. To cross between bridges one must take water transportation, either water taxi or bus (vaporetto). The many gondolas, originally the vehicle of the elite, are probably hired 95% by tourists. At exhorbitant cost. There is a Grand Canal waterbus route, the primary source of movement, that crisscrosses the water from stop to stop. Rather like tacking. I rode it from one end to the other. At night & day. The palaces & mansions that line the canal , from the time when Venice was the richest city in the world., stand there in either grandeur or grand decay & can take one's breath away with their size & character & beauty. They are enhanced to a strange dream-like perception when seen illuminated at night. Haunted, perhaps..... like Thomas Mann's Venice....................................explore 144.
View On White large / recommended..........Have a great day everyone!
Front page on Explore, 28/04/2008
"I can row you well." (Death in Venice, Mann)
More Venice photos here.
Das Landhaus von Thomas Mann in Bad Tölz - als Bild mein Geburtstagsgeschenk für AnnA
I had originally planned to make a more morbid diptych - using photos of dead pigeons - and calling it "Tod in Venedig," but I found the first shot and changed my mind. They just look so menacing.
Happy very very late Diptych Sunday!
This made it to #394 in Explore (how...?), but dropped off.