Buddenbrooks

«Buddenbrooks» — a family saga about four generations of a wealthy trading house, gradually fading into the past. Against the backdrop of changes in society and culture of the 19th century, Mann shows how material well-being gives way to spiritual searching and fatigue from life. The novel became not only a chronicle of the decline of the bourgeois world but also a reflection on the fate of the individual in the confrontation with time, tradition, and art.