description: Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a classic of modern literature.It is the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity; in an uncertain new world, the family’s bonds and traditions begin to disintegrate. As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks’ decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence, and madness, he ushers the reader into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip, and earthy humor.In its immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, buddenbrooks surpasses all other modern family chronicles. With remarkable fidelity to the original German text, this superb translation emphasizes the magnificent scale of Mann’s achievement in this riveting, tragic novel.
language: German
title: Buddenbrooks
titlecomplete: Buddenbrooks
characters: Alois Permaneder, Edmund Pfühl, Hugo Weinschenk, Julie Hagenström, Antonie Buddenbrook, Sesame Weichbrodt, Bendix Grünlich, Morten Schwarzkopf, Sievert Tiburtius, Siegismund Gosch, Kai Mölln, Hanno Buddenbrook, Gerda Arnoldsen, Elisabeth Buddenbrook, Johann Buddenbrook, Hermann Hagenström, Clara Buddenbrook, Thomas Buddenbrook, Armgard von Schilling, Klothilde, Erika Grünlich, Jürgen Kröger, Peter Döhlmann, Jakob Kröger, Jean Jacques Hoffstede, Ida Jungmann, Justus Kröger, Christian Buddenbrook, Buddenbrooks, Gotthold Buddenbrook, Lebrecht Kröger
genres: Novels, Historical Fiction, Germany, Classics, Historical, German Literature, Nobel Prize, Fiction, Literature, 20th Century
ratings_count: 28993
places: Lübeck, Germany