The Buddenbrook
The novel is the setting in northern Germany and tells the story of three generations of Buddenbrooks, between 1835 and 1877 (the founder of the House, Johan, is mentioned only occasionally), a merchant family representative of the bourgeois spirit of the time. The book published by Gollancz contains a useful tree that helps easily locate the characters from the beginning, but at the end of the novel the reader to accurately recognize the most relevant.
The author is recreating an era, contextualizándola a particular social class, in addition to outlining characters so that delves into their innermost recesses and windings. The family is brought to glory by the consul Johann Buddenbrooks, and soon becomes exposed the protocol that defines character, starting with the convenient marriages that everyone has a duty to perform, regardless of the feelings that mediate them.
Buddenbrooks family has a party in honor of the new house they bought in the Mengstrasse.La family is one of the most important in Lübeck by which owns the name Johann Buddenbrooks, an import and export of cereals .
The consul grandfather Johann Buddenbrooks is the current owner of the company and is married to Antoinette Duchamps. They have two children: Gothold who was disinherited for marrying a shopkeeper without the consent of his father, Johann who works for the company and is married to Elisabeth Kröger and has four children: Thomas (Tom), Christian, Antonie (Tony) and Klara. Also living in the house Ida Jungman, from Prussia and makes aya and housekeeper, and Klothilde (Tilda) who is disinherited daughter of a part of the family and has been adopted by the Mengstraße Buddenbrooks.
The family summers in Travemünde, a hotel at the seaside she attends the elite of society.
Time passes and the old Johann Buddenbrooks, founder, dies thus taking the reins of the company consulate and his son, the consul Johann Buddenbrooks. At about the same time Tom goes to work for his father with
The author is recreating an era, contextualizándola a particular social class, in addition to outlining characters so that delves into their innermost recesses and windings. The family is brought to glory by the consul Johann Buddenbrooks, and soon becomes exposed the protocol that defines character, starting with the convenient marriages that everyone has a duty to perform, regardless of the feelings that mediate them.
Buddenbrooks family has a party in honor of the new house they bought in the Mengstrasse.La family is one of the most important in Lübeck by which owns the name Johann Buddenbrooks, an import and export of cereals .
The consul grandfather Johann Buddenbrooks is the current owner of the company and is married to Antoinette Duchamps. They have two children: Gothold who was disinherited for marrying a shopkeeper without the consent of his father, Johann who works for the company and is married to Elisabeth Kröger and has four children: Thomas (Tom), Christian, Antonie (Tony) and Klara. Also living in the house Ida Jungman, from Prussia and makes aya and housekeeper, and Klothilde (Tilda) who is disinherited daughter of a part of the family and has been adopted by the Mengstraße Buddenbrooks.
The family summers in Travemünde, a hotel at the seaside she attends the elite of society.
Time passes and the old Johann Buddenbrooks, founder, dies thus taking the reins of the company consulate and his son, the consul Johann Buddenbrooks. At about the same time Tom goes to work for his father with