Buddenbrooks
Sign in to saveBuddenbrooks () is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family, the Mann family of Lübeck, and their milieu.
Key facts
- Book.name
- Buddenbrooks
- Book.title_orig
- Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie
- Book.orig_lang_code
- de
- Book.native_external_url
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34811
- Book.image
- 1901 Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks.jpg
- Book.caption
- First edition (two volumes) covers
- Book.author
- Thomas Mann
- Book.country
- Germany
- Book.language
- German
- Book.genre
- Family saga
- Book.publisher
- S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin
- Book.release_date
- 1901
- Book.dewey
- 833.9/12
- Book.oclc
- 16705387
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- Plot summary
- Themes
- Literary significance and criticism
- Thomas Buddenbrook and Schopenhauer
- English translations
- Film and television adaptations
- See also
- Notes
- External links
Buddenbrooks () is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family, the Mann family of Lübeck, and their milieu.
It was Mann's first novel, published when he was twenty-six years old. With the publication of the second edition in 1903, Buddenbrooks became a literary success. Its English translation by Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter was published in 1924. The work led to a Nobel Prize in Literature for Mann in 1929; although the Nobel award generally recognises an author's body of work, the Swedish Academy's citation for Mann identified "his great novel Buddenbrooks" as the principal reason for his prize.