A_comparison_of_Death_in_Venice_and_Baron_In_the_Trees

A comparison of Death in Venice and Baron In the Trees A comparison of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann and Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino Solitary individuals often exploit different views on our world, sometimes accompanied by a ‘disharmonious’ way of living, as we can see in these two books. The concept of a distant view on life, is applied in both works, be it Gustav von Aschenbach’s artistic dilemma in Death in Venice or Cosimo’s escape from rules and regulations by leaving the natural life on the ground, to live beneath the sky yet above the earth, in Baron in the Trees. What is it then, that drives them' Is it the pursuit of perfection, of utmost beauty' The wish to live independently, free from the humdrum routine of an earthbound existence' Or perhaps they are merely engaging in a quest for romance' Both of the lead characters are different from the rest; both are hermits in their own separate ways, and their views on our world are accordingly diverse. Death in Venice, written by Thomas Mann in 1912, is a symbol-laden story of aestheticism and decadence. Gustav von Aschenbach is an ascetic German author with a sense for discipline and formal perfection in literature, and writes thereafter. Upon life, cosimo, both, aschenbach, trees, society, death, venice, world, way, pg, perhaps, own, over, literature, himself, being, because, beauty, aschenbach’s, while, von, thomas, symbolism, story, pursuit, philosophical, novel, natural, mann, lives, live, gustav, fact, existence, earth, different, decadence, boy, baron, artist, age, above, , works, whose, watching, voltaire, views, takes, spiritually