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Venice
also: Venedig, Venice
The Italian city of canals, associated in Trakl with beauty in decay, water, reflection, and golden decline. It enters Sebastian im Traum as an elegiac south — a city of gorgeous ruin.
Reading notes
- Sebastian in Dream §39 Venice
Venice appears as the city of stagnant beauty and decay — the blackish voyage, the canal, the homeless outsider; Trakl visited in 1913 and wrote 'In Venice' shortly after, prefiguring the city's canonical role as a site of beautiful dissolution.
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