by Thomas Mann · DEBOLSILLO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788466356152
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Buddenbrooks is a novel by German writer Thomas Mann, published in 1901. The work narrates the decline of a bourgeois family from Lübeck over four generations, from 1835 to 1877. Through the story of the Buddenbrooks, Mann explores themes such as social decline, the relationship between art and life, and the contrast between the public and private spheres. The novel, which earned Mann the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929, is considered one of the most important works of 20th-century German literature.
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.
