Buddenbrooks

Buddenbrooks
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 737
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ISBN-10 : 9780307780959
ISBN-13 : 0307780953
Rating : 4/5 (953 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Buddenbrooks by : Thomas Mann

Download or read book Buddenbrooks written by Thomas Mann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 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. 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.


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