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BuddenbrooksNovel by the German writer Thomas Mann, published in 1901. Set in northern Germany during the 19th century, it describes the decline of a family. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Family sagas, such as John Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga, a series of three novels linked together by the Forsyte family, Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks and his tetralogy Joseph and His Brothers, or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude provide a genealogical account of a family, tracing its development through several generations over a considerable period of time. Mann's first great novel - Buddenbrooks - was subtitled "The Decadence of a Family" and recounted the downfall of that North German patriarchal bourgeoisie from which he came. By the time of Gabriele D'Annunzio's The Virgins of the Rocks (1895) or Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1900), the family progressively devitalized down the generations was a literary cliche, including heightened awareness and sensitivity among the terminal brood. |
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