25th book - "Tod in Venedig" - Thomas Mann - 7 points

An old guy falls in love with a young man at his Summer residence in Venice and is even not talking directly to him. A gay story written in 1913! It's interesting how he describes the suffering of a human being and how it controls you. It's a novella and the writing style is of it's time, not too easy to read nowadays. I found it hard to read the first quarter of the book, but then it became an easier reading towards the middle and the end. It's interesting to see the development of the main figure Gustav von Aschenbach.
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is a German author, born in Lübeck, died in Zürich.
I read the 21st paperback edition (July 2008) in German language from Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. First published 1913. ISBN 978-3-596-11266-1. I bought this book at a bookstore in New Haven at the Yale university.