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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf German novel
bildungsroman
family saga
novel
adaptation 1923 silent film adaptation
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
firstEditionFormat two volumes
genre modernist literature
realist novel
hasTranslation Chinese
English
French
Italian
Japanese
Russian
Spanish
inCanon 20th-century literary classics
German literary canon
influenced Thomas Mann's literary reputation
literaryMovement Realism
surface form: German realism

early modernism
mainTheme bourgeois values
conflict between art and business
decay and degeneration
decline of a bourgeois family
social change
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableCharacter Christian Buddenbrook
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
early 20th century
titleSubtitle Verfall einer Familie

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Buddenbrooks notableCharacter Buddenbrooks self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Hanno Buddenbrook
Thomas Mann notableWork Buddenbrooks
Mann notableWork Buddenbrooks
subject surface form: Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann signatureWork Buddenbrooks