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Quotation from Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

“Denied and glossed over, death was eating its way along the narrow streets”

Thomas Mann (spoken by Narrator)

Death in Venice, Chapter V, trans. Kenneth Burke (1925)

Portrait of Thomas Mann

From the account of the cholera's arrival in Venice and the authorities' concealment of it.

Citation: "Denied and glossed over, death was eating its way along the narrow streets" — Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, Chapter V, trans. Kenneth Burke (1925). (id mann-death-in-venice-q4)

Portrait: Thomas Mann 1929, Nobel Foundation, Public domain.

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