Impossible Conception
T.J. Reed: ‘Death in Venice’, 25 September 2014
Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach
by Philip Kitcher.
Columbia, 254 pp., £20.50, November 2013,978 0 02 311626 1 Show More
by Philip Kitcher.
Columbia, 254 pp., £20.50, November 2013,
“... palatable to the middle classes’. The novella’s effect was all the stronger for not being – Philip Kitcher misreads it – about ‘a closet homosexual’ who has ‘refused to acknowledge his sexual inclinations’. Unlike his fully self-aware creator, who, though never a practising homosexual (‘how can one sleep with men?’ he asked in a 1950 diary ... ”