Giving life to Death: Wladyslaw “Adzio” Moes
(left, center) with friend and sisters
photo: Carroll & Graf

This is kind of fun. One of the main characters of one of my favourite novels, Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, the young Polish boy Tadzio was in fact modelled after a young Polish boy called Wladyslaw “Adzio” Moes. Read more here: http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0349,barra,49149,10.html.

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