Buddenbrooks

The Decline of a Family

Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences, intrinsically the same, vary slightly as they recur in each succeeding generation. Yet as the Buddenbrooks family eventually succumbs to the seductions of modernity -- seductions that are at variance with its own traditions -- its downfall becomes certain.

In immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modem family chronicles; it has, indeed, proved a model for most of them. Judged as the greatest of Mann's novels by some critics, it is ranked as among the greatest by all. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929.

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  • Publisher: S. FISCHER
  • Release: 01.10.1997
  • ISBN: 978-3-10-348124-2
  • 768 Pages
  • Author: Thomas Mann
Buchcover von Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie
Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks
Portrait von Thomas Mann
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Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann, (1875 - 1955) is one of the 20th century’s most significant writ- ers. He is credited with bringing the German novel to the international stage, and his multifaceted works have received a worldwide positive reception which has rarely been equalled. From 1933 onwards, he lived in exile, first in Switzer- land, then in the US. Only in 1952 did Mann return to Europe, where he died in 1955 in Zurich.