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Buddenbrooks
(FEBRUARY 25, 1924)
Buddenbrooks--Thomas Mann. Ostensibly the study of the decay
through over-prosperity of a North German merchant family, actually
an able and complete study of this, Buddenbrooks is at least two
other things: A vividly written picture of the color and way of
living of an older and attractive Germany that is now, and that has
been for nearly half a century, as dead as Nineveh; and an
extraordinarily brilliant depiction of the characters of a group
of persons that makes it about as interesting a book as has been
offered to the American reading public for a number of years. The
last quality is what calls for superlatives. Every character in the
book is exhibited to you brilliantly. But Thomas and Christian and
Antonie---and a few others--are not merely exhibited to you.
Instead, practically the lifetime of each is portrayed flawlessly.
You are allowed to see how they change and yet do not change in the
slightest; how they grow old both imperceptibly and suddenly.