- Fiction, Families, Family, Civilization
This epic, sub-titled ‘The Decline of a Family’, was Mann’s first novel, published in 1901. It traces the gradual downfall of a wealthy family over four generations in the city of Lubeck. The novel is widely regarded as a classic portrait of bourgeois society and family life in 19th century Germany.
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Classical in form, prestige, grave and contemplative.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Thomas Mann
- First published
- 1909
- Pages
- 669
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Vintage, Secker andWarburg
- Editions
- 87
- Language
- Russian, fin, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780140181388
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Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, the anti-fascist Mann fled to Switzerland. When World
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