![]() ![]() either experiencing it for themselves beneath the bells of St Mark's or swooning at every luxuriant sighting of Visconti's 1971 film Death in Venice or Britten's last opera of the same name. Gay aesthetes have long thrilled to its louche mix of sacred and profane, beauty and decay. Byron, Diaghilev, Baron Corvo and EM Forster all lived the Death in Venice myth before it was even written. The gay Lolita, Death in Venice has endured many recastings - the most recent being Harold Brodkey's skittishly brilliant final novel Profane Friendship. A languid cinephile of tousled appearance and uncertain age, he is also the respected, rather cerebral author of such mimetic tomes as The Postmodernist Always Rings Twice, Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland sequels, and of course the elegantly slim novel Love and Death on Long Island - a reworking of Thomas Mann's 1912 classic, Death in Venice. ![]() Gilbert Adair is best known for his film column in the Sunday Times. ![]()
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