Death in Venice (1913), by Thomas Mann, is a tragic tale of an acclaimed author's obsession for a young boy and an exploration of the nature of beauty.
Nabokov's 1962 Pale Fire, a hilarious look at a different kind of obsession, presents a brilliant parody of.....
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