Tristan

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Also known as: “Tristan: Sechs Novellen”

Tristan, novella by Thomas Mann, published in 1903 as one of six novellas in Tristan: Sechs Novellen. The plot concerns three individuals: Anton Klöterjahn, a prosperous, unimaginative businessman from northern Germany; his tubercular wife, Gabriele; and Detlev Spinell, an effete, eccentric writer. Deposited by Anton at an Alpine sanatorium, Gabriele becomes the object of Detlev’s exaggerated devotion. Claiming that Anton’s attention to business is crushing Gabriele’s artistic spirit, Detlev encourages her to tap her long-suppressed talent as a pianist. Gabriele performs for him a selection from the opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner that leaves them both in rapture. ...(100 of 150 words)