Buddenbrooks :
the decline of a family /
Thomas Mann ; translated from the German by John E. Woods

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Main Author
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955
Related Names
Woods, John E. (John Edwin)
Language(s)
English
Published
New York : Knopf, 1993
Edition
1st American ed
Subjects
Middle class families.
Merchants.
Manners and customs.
Families.
Merchants > Germany > Lübeck > Fiction
Families > Germany > Lübeck > Fiction
Middle class families > Germany > Lübeck > Fiction
Germany > Lübeck.
Germany.
Lübeck (Germany) > Fiction
Germany > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
Philosophical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Philosophical fiction.
Summary
In immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modern 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
A major literary event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929. Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modern 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
Physical Description
648 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780679752608
0679752609
9780679419945
0679419942
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