In a nameless Hanseatic city in northern Germany in 1835, the Buddenbrook family has gathered in the salon of their brand new and fairly ostentatious home. There are the grandparents, parents Johann and Elizabeth, sons Thomas and Christian and daughter Antonie (Tony). They are proud, up and coming members of the local upper middle class. They aspire to greatness. And by the end of the novel, it is 1877 and the family has fallen to ruin. In short: Buddenbrooks is about as sunny as you’d […]
Getting Bougie With It
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann