description: A Major Literary 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 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 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.
language: German
title: Buddenbrooks
titlecomplete: Buddenbrooks
characters: Hanno Buddenbrook, Jakob Kröger, Sievert Tiburtius, Thomas Buddenbrook, Clara Buddenbrook, Gerda Arnoldsen, Alois Permaneder, Hermann Hagenström, Peter Döhlmann, Kai Mölln, Edmund Pfühl, Christian Buddenbrook, Johann Buddenbrook, Erika Grünlich, Jürgen Kröger, Hugo Weinschenk, Gotthold Buddenbrook, Sesame Weichbrodt, Jean Jacques Hoffstede, Ida Jungmann, Siegismund Gosch, Bendix Grünlich, Lebrecht Kröger, Klothilde, Morten Schwarzkopf, Antonie Buddenbrook, Julie Hagenström, Elisabeth Buddenbrook, Justus Kröger, Buddenbrooks, Armgard von Schilling
genres: Historical Fiction, German Literature, Nobel Prize, Historical, Classics, Novels, Germany, Fiction, Literature, 20th Century
ratings_count: 28994
places: Germany, Lübeck
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (NY)