Aschenbach Syndrome A Novel
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Nein
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Ja
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Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
08.05.2026
Verlag
BoD - Books on DemandSeitenzahl
106 (Printausgabe)
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330 KB
Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9783696331443
At the end of his sixties, an unnamed narrator gives his lifelong fever a diagnosis: Aschenbach Syndrome, the incurable longing for beauty and youth that does not fade with age.
Through confessional therapy sessions, digital voyeurism, intimate betrayals, foreign cities, and a return to the spectral shores of Death in Venice, desire is examined not as a scandal, but as a condition. Not as lust, but as projection. Not as love, but as the terror of disappearance.
No names.
Only a voice asking the question that lingers beneath every gaze: Do I want them, or do I want to be them?
Haunted by the finale of Visconti's film Death in Venice, this novel does not retell a legend, it interrogates it. With cultural critique and a striking emotional nakedness, it dismantles inherited narratives that have long governed beauty, aging, and desire.
What if the tragedy was never desire itself?
Aschenbach Syndrome challenges the quiet tyrannies we rarely name: youth supremacy, the tragic queer archetype, and the idea that aging equals disappearance. It refuses consolation, insisting instead on confrontation.
Lyrical, provocative, and philosophically charged, this avant-garde meditation explores aging, shame, faith, erotic imagination, and the fragile line between witnessing beauty and trying to possess it.
Through confessional therapy sessions, digital voyeurism, intimate betrayals, foreign cities, and a return to the spectral shores of Death in Venice, desire is examined not as a scandal, but as a condition. Not as lust, but as projection. Not as love, but as the terror of disappearance.
No names.
Only a voice asking the question that lingers beneath every gaze: Do I want them, or do I want to be them?
Haunted by the finale of Visconti's film Death in Venice, this novel does not retell a legend, it interrogates it. With cultural critique and a striking emotional nakedness, it dismantles inherited narratives that have long governed beauty, aging, and desire.
What if the tragedy was never desire itself?
Aschenbach Syndrome challenges the quiet tyrannies we rarely name: youth supremacy, the tragic queer archetype, and the idea that aging equals disappearance. It refuses consolation, insisting instead on confrontation.
Lyrical, provocative, and philosophically charged, this avant-garde meditation explores aging, shame, faith, erotic imagination, and the fragile line between witnessing beauty and trying to possess it.
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