Buddenbrooks

Verfall einer Familie

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»Es ist eine hervorragende Arbeit, redlich, positiv und reich«, urteilte S. Fischers Lektor Moritz Heimann nach der Lektüre des Manuskripts über Thomas Manns, ersten Roman, seinen wohl am meisten gelesenen, am meisten verbreiteten. ›Verfall einer Familie‹ - sein Untertitel scheint ihn einzureihen in eine bestimmte Gattung, aber »der Zug zum Satirischen und Grottesken«, der darin steckt, hebt ihn zugleich davon ab, gibt ihm einen eigenen Charakter, eigene Wirkung bis in die Gegenwart. Thomas Mann erzählt nur wenig verschlüsselt die Geschichte seiner Familie und ihrer Stellung in der Vaterstadt Lübeck, soweit …

Hardcover, 786 pages

German language

Published Oct. 1, 1997

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978-3-10-348124-2
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reviewed Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (Everyman's library ;)

A german classic worthwhile enduring

Thomas Mann is not without reason one of the great storytellers and seen as a monolith in German-language literature. With his debut novel "Buddenbrooks" he wrote a long read that provides a literary insight into the life of the Hanseatic upper middle class of the 19th century. If Buddenbrooks is read with the courage to skip boring passages at times, the classic becomes an entertaining read. Each member of the Buddenbrook family has a distinct personality, and with seamless time skips, Mann explores how it comes to pass that the Family's wealth, status and grain wholesale company slowly deteriorates. Thus, the characters grow on you and the almost pulpy blows of fate hit you hard, even though you have nothing in common with these fictional characters from another century. Of course, "Buddenbrooks" is showing its age and the length may be off-putting, but all in all, the novel is still …

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