{"product_id":"aschenbach-syndrome-von-lucian-s","title":"Aschenbach Syndrome","description":"At the end of his sixties, an unnamed narrator gives his lifelong fever a diagnosis: Aschenbach Syndrome, the incurable longing for beauty and youth that does not fade with age.\nThrough confessional therapy sessions, digital voyeurism, intimate betrayals, foreign cities, and a return to the spectral shores of Death in Venice, desire is examined not as a scandal, but as a condition. Not as lust, but as projection. Not as love, but as the terror of disappearance.\nNo names.\nOnly a voice asking the question that lingers beneath every gaze: Do I want them, or do I want to be them?\nHaunted by the finale of Visconti's film Death in Venice, this novel does not retell a legend, it interrogates it. With cultural critique and a striking emotional nakedness, it dismantles inherited narratives that have long governed beauty, aging, and desire.\nWhat if the tragedy was never desire itself?\nAschenbach Syndrome challenges the quiet tyrannies we rarely name: youth supremacy, the tragic queer archetype, and the idea that aging equals disappearance. It refuses consolation, insisting instead on confrontation.\nLyrical, provocative, and philosophically charged, this avant-garde meditation explores aging, shame, faith, erotic imagination, and the fragile line between witnessing beauty and trying to possess it.\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783842396166\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA Novel\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783842396166","offer_id":57730325741893,"sku":"9783842396166","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/470007ff-5949-4bfe-a367-9ab850160664.jpg?v=1779856874","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/aschenbach-syndrome-von-lucian-s","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}