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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. 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. 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. "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 no reviews | add a review
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Auch die Anfänge des 19. Jahrhunderts litten unter den globalen, wirtschaftlichen Veränderungen ihrer Zeit. Ein Fakt, dem sich jede Generation immer wieder stellen muß. so dass die Geschichte der Buddenbrooks hochaktuell bleibt, zumal Thomas Mann sie in Gesichter kleidet, die facettenreich und unterhaltsam sind. Ob die zwanziger, die fünfziger, die achtziger Jahre oder gleich das neue Jahrtausend, die Leser finden sich in einer der Personen wieder und gleiten an ihrer Hand durch den Roman. Wenn man sich fragt, was ein Buch braucht, um den Tod seines Autors zu überleben, darf man es hier ruhig immer wieder nachlesen.