Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann is one of The Bokklubben World Library’s Greatest 100 Books of All Time, the Swedish Academy identified "the great novel Buddenbrooks" as the principal reason for The Nobel Prize awarded to Thomas Mann, it is ranked 88th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and it is one of my favorites – for more reviews you could visit https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html

 

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann is one of The Bokklubben World Library’s Greatest 100 Books of All Time, the Swedish Academy identified "the great novel Buddenbrooks" as the principal reason for The Nobel Prize awarded to Thomas Mann, it is ranked 88th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and it is one of my favorites – for more reviews you could visit https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html

 

10 out of 10

 

Thomas Mann has two masterpieces https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/magic-mountain-by-thomas-mann.html among The 100 Greatest Books, and one of them is Buddenbrooks, which I seem to have appreciated less, when I first read it, or more probably, there was something, maybe some crisis which affected the experience

 

Buddenbrooks is so elating, marvelous that I will write at least another note, I have decided so much happened by now, after about eight hours in the audiobook, that I have to try and take more pleasure from writing about it, especially referring to Antonie aka Tony Buddenbrook, my favorite so far, in spite of her shortcomings

To The Hermitage https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/to-hermitage-by-malcolm-bradbury-author.html by Malcolm Bradbury purports that ‘characters are deeper, cleverer, nobler, and the plot has more twists, romantic fulfilment’ ergo fiction of the highest quality is preferable to reality, and Buddenbrooks, Antonie demonstrate that theorem

 

This is writing as I want it, Pure Perfection, I might say ‘classic, maybe conservative’, for modern, postmodern fiction is somewhat, or absolutely inaccessible to the under signed – we have a family with a respectable history although they will decline, this much we know, and we can anticipate, indeed, it is already happening

Thomas will take the reins of the business, his brother is more artistically inclined, perhaps in the sense that he prefers artists, not that he is thus endowed himself, he did show talent for the English language, when dispatched there, but not much interest in the affairs of trade, Antonie has a suitor that will play the role of the villain

 

Bendix Grunlich proclaims his fascination for Tony, despite her rejection, even mockery, she takes a vacation to the Baltic Sea, as a result of this courtship, and she meets a very fine young man, except he belongs to a different class, and therefore he is ‘unsuitable’, while Grunlich has a respectable position, and will be a good match

Tony listens to her father, and an inherited sense of duty, she marries this fellow, only to find in a few years that it has all been a lie, a conspiracy, the man had wanted to fix his debts by using the impeccable image of the Buddenbrooks family, he borrowed ever more, with higher rates of interest, to the point of bankruptcy

 

He is a primogenitor of Donald Trump, without the means that the latter had to deceive more than what, seventy five million people, and now he has reached an impasse, he claims to love his wife, then, in fury, he shows he was a Confidence Man…Thomas Mann has some astounding writing on various themes, perhaps the most important would be love, or lack thereof https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/tristan-by-thomas-mann-one-of-my.html

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