Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks
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Published:
29 July, 1996
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Description
Wealthy, esteemed, and deeply rooted in tradition, the Buddenbrook family epitomises nineteenth-century German bourgeois values.
But as the tides of modernity and change sweep through Europe, their once-stable world begins to crumble, along with the tenets on which the Buddenbrooks built their success. Spanning four generations, this semi-autobiographical family epic records the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty.
'Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' New York Times
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More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780749386474 |
| ISBN10 | 0749386479 |
| Number Of Pages | 864 |
| Item Weight | 595 g |
| Product Dimensions | 131 x 200 x 53 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century * New York Times *
A simple but magnificent proof of genius. A first novel by a 25-year-old with absolute command of his craft, uncanny knowledge of his world, its past and present, and a daring originality which makes its last pages among the most startlingly moving I know * New York Times *
One of the best novels of the 20th century * Guardian *
That definitive epic of German family life * Irish Times *
His masterpiece * Los Angeles Times *
Has extraordinary value as a document over and above its importance as literature. The friendly dispassionateness of the book, the amplitude, the final perfection of clearness, make it as satisfying as a Dürer drawing * Observer *
An absorbing, well-observed, almost film-like telling of a family in Lubeck over a generation or two * Independent *
A detailed portrait of a family and its destructive impact * New York Times *
One of the greatest things a novel can do is to create a world - and this is one of the most richly evoked and inhabited of all * Week *
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Author's Bio
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is widely regarded as the greatest German novelist of the twentieth century. His first novel, Buddenbrooks, was a huge success and led to a Nobel Prize in Literature. However, when the Nazis came to power, his works were blacklisted and burned and Mann was stripped of his citizenship. He spent the latter part of his life in exile in the United States and Switzerland. His other major novels include The Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus and Joseph and His Brothers.