by Thomas Mann · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422611332
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«Los Buddenbrook» is the novel by Thomas Mann included in the volume of Selected Works published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (529 pages, in Spanish).
The novel, set in Lübeck, narrates the decline of a family of merchants over four generations, from their economic and social rise to their ruin. Mann offers a critique of the bourgeois society of his time and of the conflict between art and life.
The novel was originally published in 1901. The cover frames this edition within the Selected Works of Thomas Mann.
For readers of European classics and family sagas.
Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modern versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer.
