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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. After seeing a reference to this book -- not once but twice -- from a blogger whose literary opinions I respect highly, I decided to take the plunge and buy this in hardcover. My experience with German lit is slender, but I'm so glad I decided to read Buddenbrooks! I was impressed by the psychological detail of the characters. The chapters of the family Christmas and Hanno's school day are nothing short of stunning. A classic, truly. (  ) Laiane | Sep 5, 2009 |  BUDDENBROOKS may not always receive its proper due since it inevitably must dwell in the shadow of Mann’s masterwork, THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN. It is however a wonderfully involving tale of the decline in fortunes of a middle-class German family in the early 20th century. ( ) zenosbooks | Feb 24, 2009 | A literature classic of its kind. This book may have influenced a lot in later family historics and bourgeousie decline stories in the tv as well as some dramatic movies. Its good but rather demanding reading, since the book is lenghty and tells a story of a family across three generations. (  ) hepsodus | Jan 22, 2009 | "Have read... the 1st Vol. of Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann... Buddenbrooks is a pretty damned good book. If he were a great writer it would be swell. When you think a book like that was published in 1902 and unknown in English until last year it makes you have even less respect, if you ever had any, for people getting stirred up over... all the books your boy friend Menken [H.L. Mencken] has gotten excited about just because they happen to deal with the much abused Am. Scene." Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 Selected Letters, pg. 176 ErnestHemingway | Dec 27, 2008 | "Have read... the 1st Vol. of Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann... Buddenbrooks is a pretty damned good book. If he were a great writer it would be swell. When you think a book like that was published in 1902 and unknown in English until last year it makes you have even less respect, if you ever had any, for people getting stirred up over... all the books your boy friend Menken [H.L. Mencken] has gotten excited about just because they happen to deal with the much abused Am. Scene." Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 Selected Letters, pg. 176 ErnestHemingway | Dec 27, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0394726375, Paperback)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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:05 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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