Buddenbrooks
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:29th Jul '96
Should be back in stock very soon
Mann's semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The book that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature
Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic.
The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established.
Wealthy, esteemed, and deeply rooted in tradition, the Buddenbrook family epitomises nineteenth-century German bourgeois values.
But as the tides of modernity and change sweep through Europe, their once-stable world begins to crumble, along with the tenets on which the Buddenbrooks built their success. Spanning four generations, this semi-autobiographical family epic records the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty.
'Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' New York Times
Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century * New York Times *
A simple but magnificent proof of genius. A first novel by a 25-year-old with absolute command of his craft, uncanny knowledge of his world, its past and present, and a daring originality which makes its last pages among the most startlingly moving I know * New York Times *
One of the best novels of the 20th century * Guardian *
That definitive epic of German family life * Irish Times *
His masterpiece * Los Angeles Times *
Has extraordinary value as a document over and above its importance as literature. The friendly dispassionateness of the book, the amplitude, the final perfection of clearness, make it as satisfying as a Dürer drawing * Observer *
An absorbing, well-observed, almost film-like telling of a family in Lubeck over a generation or two * Independent *
A detailed portrait of a family and its destructive impact * New York Times *
One of the greatest things a novel can do is to create a world - and this is one of the most richly evoked and inhabited of all * Week *
ISBN: 9780749386474
Dimensions: 200mm x 131mm x 53mm
Weight: 595g
864 pages