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Buddenbrookit 1: Erään suvun rappeutumistarina

by Thomas Mann

Translated by Siiri Siegberg

"Buddenbrookit 1: Erään suvun rappeutumistarina" by Thomas Mann is a novel published in 1901. It chronicles the gradual decline of a wealthy north German merchant family across four generations, from 1835 to 1877. Drawing from his own family history in Lübeck, Mann explores the conflict between business and artistic worlds through intimate portraits of Hanseatic bourgeois life. As finances dwindle and family ideals erode amid Germany's rapid industrialization, successive generations find happiness increasingly elusive, regardless of their choices.

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