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SAGGI



                                            Xénophon et Plutarque

                              dans Der Tod in Venedig de Thomas mann



                                                     PAuL DEmONT


                                                   Sorbonne Université








                           Abstract

                           Xenophon and Plutarch in Thomas Mann’s Der Tod in Venedig


                           There are many overt and covert quotations of ancient Greek Literature in
                           Thomas Mann’s Der Tod in Venedig. It has been shown by previous scholar-
                           ship that Mann found most of them in A. Schopenhauer’s Die Welt als Wille
                           und Vorstellung. This paper adds further considerations about Schopenhauer’s
                           influence  on  Mann’s  reading  and  re-writing  of  a  single  quotation  from
                           Xenophon and Plutarch’s Erotikos.


                           Keywords: Thomas  Mann;  Xenophon;  Plutarch;  Schopenhauer;
                           Paedophilia.
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