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Buddenbrooks (German: [ˈbʊdn̩ˌbʁoːks] ⓘ) is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877.
- Thomas Mann
- 1901
A classic of modern literature: Buddenbrooks 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. With an introduction by T. J. Reed, and translated by John E. Woods.
- (30.8K)
- Hardcover
Buddenbrooks: With Ursula Dirichs, Reinhild Solf, Volkert Kraeft, Gerd Böckmann. Family saga set in 19th century Germany, chronicling the lives of three generations of the Buddenbrook family, the owners of a family business in the northern town of Luebeck.
- (141)
- 1979-10-05
- Drama
- 614
Buddenbrooks, novel by Thomas Mann, published in 1901 in two volumes in German as Buddenbrooks, Verfall einer Familie (“Buddenbrooks, the Decline of a Family”). The work was Mann’s first novel, and it expressed the ambivalence of his feelings about the value of the life of the artist as opposed to.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 9, 2022 · Of the many works by the renowned German author Thomas Mann (1875–1955), including Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, none match the epic proportion or literary legacy of the novel Buddenbrooks. Written early in his career, this story of the decline of the family symbolized by the Buddenbrooks chronicles not simply an increase ...
An analysis of novel “Buddenbrooks” by Thomas Mann: creation story, central idea, chronotope, main conflict, images of the main characters
Oct 8, 2018 · For many, Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks is considered THE German social novel. It is indeed a classic, and one that garnered the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. Global fame, an international...
