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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family Paperback - 1994
by Thomas Mann
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- Title Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
- Author Thomas Mann
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 736
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage International, New York, NY
- Date 1994-06-28
- Bookseller's Inventory # DD0045531
- ISBN 9780679752608 / 0679752609
- Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 5.28 x 1.26 in (20.47 x 13.41 x 3.20 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Germany - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93043499
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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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.
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.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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- Publishers Weekly, 06/13/1994, Page 0