Germany

Buddenbrooks

by Thomas Mann

Summary

The decline of a wealthy merchant family in Lübeck over four generations as bourgeois values give way to artistic temperament and physical decay. Mann's debut novel, written when he was 25, won him the Nobel Prize in 1929.

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Thomas Mann

German novelist and essayist (1875–1955) and Nobel laureate who explored the tension between the bourgeois world and the life of the artist. He fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and eventually settled in the United States.

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Published
1901
Author
Thomas Mann