For a long time I have been considering adding two new shelves - big-and-beautiful, governed by War and Peace and big-and-boredomful, governed by Middlemarch. Sadly, and to my great surprise, the Budenbrooks will have to reside on the latter shelf.I saw many reviewers being astonished that such a no...
I have been stalling about writing a review. Just as I stalled about finishing the book. Buddenbrooks didn't exactly grab me in the beginning. The first few chapters seemed to be about a bunch of smug, self-indulgent people who wore elaborate outfits and stuffed themselves without restraint. I barel...
Hello everyone, I am currently re-reading it in German and want to recommend it to an English friend of mine. Could you please let me know who translated your book and if the language was very precise and fitting to the period? I'd like to give it to him as a present but want to make sure the transl...
Buddenbrooks is not a book I would've likely noticed or picked up had it not been for an invitation from the Thomas Mann group. German literature has never attracted me and Thomas Mann was among that class of authors whose work, I felt, was probably more effort that it was enjoyable. (He had that lo...
This is a novel I may never have read had my friend Kalliope not invited me to join in a group read. While I'm an enthusiatic reader of 19th century English and (to a lesser extent) French literature, my exposure to German literature of this period has been sadly lacking. So I'm glad to have had the...
I read a review recently of a historical novel. The reviewer believed that most historical novels fail, because they depict characters with a modern consciousness. These characters often defy the thinking of their times and act in ways that we can approve of. This novel is not historical fiction, bu...
Operatic, saga like, and so German. Mann’s novel follows the lives of a member of German family which struggles to escape the grasp of fate once they have places their sensitive members in her hands. In many ways, the novel echoes on a more modern level the legends such as Segued, with the same s...
MEAN REVERSION IS A BITCH...!!!There is a concept in statistics, Regression or Reversion to the Mean, which is widely used in a variety of fields of knowledge. It was first realized by Sir Francis Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, when he worked on the correlation of heights between adult children ...
Książkę przeczytałem, ale nie powiem, żeby bardzo mnie wciągnęła : To typowa historia(a może nawet i saga) opowiadająca o dziejach rodziny kupieckiej w pierwszej połowie XIX w. Przez kilka kilkadziesiąt stron nie wiedziałem na kim się skupić, bo Mann opisywał po trochu każdego członka dosyć licznej ...
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