Who would have imagined it in the beginning? A 26-year-old man without a high school diploma, but greatly ambitious, writes a two-pound book with a melancholy undertone. "I'm not exactly delighted," his publisher initially responded. But he ended up publishing the novel anyway, more out of goodwill than conviction. And the rest is history. For many, Thomas Mann 's Buddenbrooks is considered THE German social novel. It is indeed a classic, and one that garnered the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. Global fame, an international best-seller, and required reading for many German students. Anyone who mentions Thomas Mann thinks of Buddenbrooks in the same breath. Why is that?
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