Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series: Buddenbrooks : The Decline of a Family; Introduction by T. J. Reed (Hardcover)

from technodiabla

I found this book to be surprisingly readable considering it's age (I read the original English translation). Also, considering the plot was just basic life events it was a real page turner. The character development is sublime throughout. The best thing about Buddenbrooks though is the interesti...

from chrisblocker

Buddenbrooks is not a book I would've likely noticed or picked up had it not been for an invitation from the Thomas Mann group. German literature has never attracted me and Thomas Mann was among that class of authors whose work, I felt, was probably more effort that it was enjoyable. (He had that...

from japaul22

Buddenbrooks was written by Thomas Mann when he was only 25 years old, but this reads as the work of a much older and more experienced writer. Buddenbrooks explores four generations of the Buddenbrooks family, a family that has everything going for it at the beginning of the book and declines thr...

from jonfaith

Apparently this was Faulkner's favorite novel from Mann. Aspects of it likely permeated his epic of the Compson family. Coincidentally I read this one while my wife's sister was staying with us over the holidays. The Sound and The Fury was read in 2004 when we visted her in London.I thought of th...

from carioca

The audacity - to review Mann's Buddenbrooks. I adore this book, and I still can't shake the revelatory feeling I got while reading it for the first time back in my teens. Because of Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann became fast one of my favorite authors. And that is easy to understand - judging by my l...