Title: Disturbing
Review: A disenchanted middle-aged German scholar stalks a young teenage boy during his retreat to Venice during the plague. This sums up the dense and disturbing plot of "Death in Venice." ... it is considered great tragic literature and even added to the "Cannon" of Western Literature. I, for one, found the plot disgusting; dense and boring text does not help the struggle to finish the reading. Hemingway, Faulkner, and Conrad, though dense (and at times, dull in their own right), capture the attention and imagination of the reader, creating an adequate encounter.
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