Death in Venice - Tristan - Tonio Kröger

Death in Venice tells how Gustave von Aschenbach, a writer utterly absorbed in his work arrives in Venice as a result of a 'youthfully ardent thirst for distant scenes', and meets there a young boy by whose beauty he becomes obsessed.
The action of Tristan takes place in a sanitorium, and the author portrays the uncertain emotions of people who are forced to live in such places.
The theme of Tonio Kröger is that of the artist striving to conform to the pattern of everyday existence.