/lit/ - Literature

>>3545136

Daily disregarding the sticky and asking for depressing book recommendations thread.

Today's recommended book is Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family.

"Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences, intrinsically the same, vary slightly as they recur in each succeeding generation. Yet as the Buddenbrooks family eventually succumbs to the seductions of modernity -- seductions that are at variance with its own traditions -- its downfall becomes certain."

Feel free to contribute your own recommendations.

Is there a twist in this book?

sooo... this is unbearingly boring. i read Magic Mountain and Dr. Faust and loved both, but this is just so goddam uneventful. i swear to god, i can't stand another paragraph describing someone's whiskers. what does /lit/ think of it? i'm already in the middle of it and am thinking of giving it up.

also, Thomas Mann general.

Thomas Mann started writing this when he was 22 years old, and it got published when he was 26.

He won the Nobel prize for it.

How does that make you feel /lit/?

Anyone up for creating a list of essential German literature for the 4Chan Literature Wiki 8http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading)? I guess it has to offer a lot. Im wondering why there isnt a list already...

suggestions one: Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann