Buddenbrooks: Parts 1-3

DiscussionsGroup Reads - Literature

Rejoignez LibraryThing pour poster.

Buddenbrooks: Parts 1-3

Ce sujet est actuellement indiqué comme "en sommeil"—le dernier message date de plus de 90 jours. Vous pouvez le réveiller en postant une réponse.

1technodiabla
Mai 19, 2010, 2:06 pm

Starting a thread for Parts 1-3.

I really love this book so far. The detail is amazing and characters are so real and clear.

2billiejean
Mai 20, 2010, 12:42 am

I finished Part 1 and am enjoying it so far.
--BJ

3george1295
Mai 25, 2010, 2:10 pm

I agree. Having finished the first two parts, the characters are facinating. A very enjoyable read even though I have not had a really good experience with Mann. Look forward to talking more with you about the book.

4technodiabla
Mai 26, 2010, 2:08 pm

I am almost done with Part 5 now. These Buddenbrooks certainly to have a habit of dying very suddenly, don't they. It's interesting that I know (from the title) that things are not going to go well for them all, but I'm still cheering them on. Mann does a great job of showing how these things happen-- are inevitable even. And even though the people are not perfect, you see where they come from and how they are a product of their environments. They can't not be themselves and are therefore essentially fated to whatever happens.

5george1295
Mai 29, 2010, 7:59 pm

I think they die so easy because I heard that if you drink a lot of beer and eat a lot of Brats, eventually you grow very old and keel over. I'm just glad that Grulich got it up the yazoo. I really just wanted to shoot the jerk.

6Cecilturtle
Mai 31, 2010, 6:03 pm

I started the book this weekend in French, a translation which dates from 1965. The translator made a comment about not being able to translate all the dialects, although she sometimes alludes to speech particularities. How does the English come through? It's a particular interest of mine...

7technodiabla
Juin 1, 2010, 1:14 am

>6 Cecilturtle:: Well, I just finished Part 6. I feel like I have a basic understanding of how the dialects were-- but mostly they are described rather than quoted through the dialogue. Certainly the Munich v. Hamburg/Lubeck is very clear. I think of it as Boston v. East Texas. I am reading the original English translation.