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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family; Introduction by T. J. Reed (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780679417378)
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xA classic of modern literature: Buddenbrooks is the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity; in an uncertain new world, the family's bonds and traditions begin to disintegrate. With an introduction by T. J. Reed, and translated by John E. Woods.
As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks' decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence, and madness, he ushers the reader into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip, and earthy humor.
First published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modern family chronicles in its immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity. With remarkable fidelity to the original German text, this superb translation emphasizes the magnificent scale of Mann's achievement in this riveting, tragic novel.
Author: Thomas Mann
ISBN-10: 0679417370
ISBN-13: 9780679417378
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Language: English
Published: 10/04/1994
Pages: 776
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.40w x 1.59d
By Thomas Mann
xABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
John E. Woods is the distinguished translator of many books -- most notably Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold, for which he won both the American Book Award for translation and the PEN Translation Prize; Patrick S?kind's Perfume, for which he again won the PEN Translation Prize in 1987; Mr. Suskind's The Pigeon and Mr. Summer's Story; Doris Drie's Love, Pain, and the Whole Damn Thing and What Do You Want from Me?; and Libuse Monikova's The Fa軋de. Mr. Woods lives in San Diego and is currently at work on a translation of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. ABOUT THE INTRODUCER
T.J. Reed is Taylor Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. Previous publications include Thomas Mann: The Uses of Tradition and The Classical Centre: Goethe and Weimar 1775-1832.
John E. Woods is the distinguished translator of many books -- most notably Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold, for which he won both the American Book Award for translation and the PEN Translation Prize; Patrick S?kind's Perfume, for which he again won the PEN Translation Prize in 1987; Mr. Suskind's The Pigeon and Mr. Summer's Story; Doris Drie's Love, Pain, and the Whole Damn Thing and What Do You Want from Me?; and Libuse Monikova's The Fa軋de. Mr. Woods lives in San Diego and is currently at work on a translation of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. ABOUT THE INTRODUCER
T.J. Reed is Taylor Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. Previous publications include Thomas Mann: The Uses of Tradition and The Classical Centre: Goethe and Weimar 1775-1832.
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