Buddenbrooks

Buddenbrooks was Thomas Mann's first novel, published in 1901 when he was twenty six years old. It was a literary success in Germany.

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Thomas Mann - Novel - 1901 - Germany

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It portrays the downfall (already announced in the subtitle, Decline of a family) of a wealthy mercantile family of Lübeck over four generations. The book is generally understood as a portrait of the German bourgeois society from the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. The book displays Mann's characteristic ironic and detailed style, and it was mainly this novel which won Mann the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929.

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Lübeck - Nobel Prize in Literature - 1929

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