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Review title: Much less to this than I had supposed
Product review: There is an old review of mine in this page that praises _Death in Venice_ as "one of the greatest works of short fiction ever written." After seeing Visconti's film adaptation I realized that I had been quite wrong. _Death in Venice_ is actually a rather slight story of homosexual infatuation made to look like it has the gravity of the ages by Mann's skill at ellipsis. But the movie is forced to make it all explicit, revealing that the Reason vs. Emotion debate is in fact rather hackneyed, and that the "voluptuousness of doom" Mann speaks of is just an older man's obsession with a pretty little boy. My hat goes off to Mann as a stylist, but I am ashamed I was taken in by this.
