3 sound discs (approximately 3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Performer
Performed by Simon Callow ; new introduction written and read by Michael Cunningham.
Summary
Celebrated novella of a middle-aged German writer's tormented passion for a Polish youth met on holiday in Venice, and its tragic consequences. Powerful evocation of the mysterious forces of death and disintegration in the midst of existence, and the isolation of the artist in 20th-century life.