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BOOK CLUB
The Book Club met virtually in June and August to discuss author Thomas Mann . The members went on a day trip together to Lübeck , the hometown of Mann and the setting of his novel Buddenbrooks .
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Buddenbrooks : The Decline of a Family By Thomas Mann , 1901 Translated by John E . Woods
Buddenbrooks – The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann was first published in 1901 when Mann was only 25 . It has become a classic of German literature , and it laid the foundation for his literary fame . Mann is celebrated as one of Germany ’ s most notable writers and was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature . The award presentation speech focused on his first epic novel , Buddenbrooks , and its importance as the first German book written in the tradition of realistic novels in grand style .
Buddenbrooks chronicles four generations of a wealthy bourgeois merchant family in Lübeck . It is highly autobiographical , and the Buddenbrooks portrayed can all be traced back to members of Mann ’ s family . In fact , most of the novel ’ s characters had a prototype in
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