Name: Buddenbrooks
Author: Thomas Mann
ISBN: 9780307780959

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A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929. Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences, intrinsically the same, vary slightly as they recur in each succeeding generation. Yet as the Buddenbrooks family eventually succumbs to the seductions of modernity -- seductions that are at variance with its own traditions -- its downfall becomes certain. In immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modem family chronicles; it has, indeed, proved a model for most of them. Judged as the greatest of Mann's novels by some critics, it is ranked as among the greatest by all. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929.

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Sema@okursema· 9mo🇹🇷

4 kuşağın gürültülü çöküşü. 1900 lü yıllarda yazılmış olmasına rağmen konu günümüz ile eş değer. Yapılan evliliklerin, kurulan arkadaşlıkların hep para ve ticari ilişkiler üzerine dönmesi, duyguların, istek ve arzuların göz ardı edilmesi anlatılmış. Aslında esas mesaj denge. Dengeden uzaklaşan her insanda oluşan sapmalar, çöküşler üzerine. Günümüzde de böyle degil mi sadece aşka yönelen kisi günün sonunda hayat kaygısından, yoğunluktan muzdarip. Tam tersi para odaklı bir başkasına tutunan da sevgisizlikten... Hayattaki yaşam kaidesi denge denge denge. Kitaptaki en güzel mesaj da bu.

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