Mann y Nietzsche: La estética de la enfermedad

Abstract

The paper proposes a reading of the illness as aesthetic means in the frame of literary practice. The exposition will start from an analysis of Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann, work where the speech on the illness and the aesthetics of the novel are constructed mutually. Later I propose a hypothesis about the illness in Friedrich Nietzsche's life and creation, both in aesthetical and ethical meanings. Finally, as a compendium, I will conclude with a comment on the experience of illness of Hans Castorp, the central character of The magic Mountain,