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Gustav von Aschenbach, an aging writer sustained by severe discipline, travels to Venice and becomes transfixed by the beauty of a boy named Tadzio. As cholera silently spreads through the city, Aschenbach knows the danger but stays, gradually surrendering his self-command while pursuing an image of beauty he can never possess.