Buddenbrooks
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Buddenbrooks is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann that chronicles the decline of a wealthy German merchant family across several generations and helped establish him as a major figure in modern literature.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hanno Buddenbrook | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German novel
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bildungsroman ⓘ family saga ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptation |
1923 silent film adaptation
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1959 film adaptation ⓘ 1979 television series adaptation ⓘ 2008 film adaptation ⓘ |
| author | Thomas Mann ⓘ |
| awarded | Nobel Prize in Literature citation reference ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
Nobel Prize in Literature
ⓘ
surface form:
Thomas Mann's Nobel Prize in Literature
|
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| depicts |
German merchant class
ⓘ
Hanseatic League (historical) ⓘ
surface form:
North German Hanseatic society
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| firstEditionFormat | two volumes ⓘ |
| genre |
modernist literature
ⓘ
realist novel ⓘ |
| hasTranslation |
Chinese
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English ⓘ French ⓘ Italian ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Russian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| inCanon |
20th-century literary classics
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German literary canon ⓘ |
| influenced | Thomas Mann's literary reputation ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Realism
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surface form:
German realism
early modernism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
bourgeois values
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conflict between art and business ⓘ decay and degeneration ⓘ decline of a bourgeois family ⓘ social change ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Christian Buddenbrook
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Buddenbrooks self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hanno Buddenbrook
Thomas Buddenbrook ⓘ Tony Buddenbrook ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| protagonistFamily | Buddenbrook family ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1901 ⓘ |
| publisher | S. Fischer Verlag ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Germany ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Lübeck ⓘ |
| structure | four parts ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
19th century
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early 20th century ⓘ |
| titleSubtitle | Verfall einer Familie ⓘ |
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hanno Buddenbrook
subject surface form:
Thomas Mann