Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

A Significant Literary Event: the publication of Thomas Manns first great work one of the two for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 in a stunning new translation.A Significant Literary Event: the publication of Thomas Manns first great work one of the two for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 in a stunning new translation. The story of four generations of a prosperous bourgeois family in northern Germany is told in Buddenbrooks a modern classic of literature that was first published in Germany in 1900 when Mann was just 25 years old. Mann paints a complete picture of middle-class life including births and christenings marriages divorces and deaths as well as accomplishments and disappointments. These everyday happenings while fundamentally the same change a little with each new generation. But as the Buddenbrooks family eventually gives in to modernitys seductions—seductions at odds with its own traditions—their demise becomes inevitable.