by Thomas Mann · FISCHER Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596294312
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Buddenbrooks is a novel by German writer Thomas Mann, published in 1901. The work narrates the decline of a wealthy bourgeois family from Lübeck over four generations, from 1835 to 1877. Through the story of the Buddenbrooks, Mann offers a critical portrait of 19th century bourgeois society and the changes that led to its decline.
Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modern versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer.
