SOURCE: Bergenholtz, Rita A. “Mann's Death in Venice.” Explicator 55 (spring 1997): 145-47.
In the following essay, Bergenholtz maintains that Aschenbach, the protagonist of Death in Venice, “is not a romantic artist-hero but a parody of one.”
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