検索キーワード： "Thomas Mann" 文学・フィクション

The story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity; in an uncertain new world, the family’s bonds and traditions begin to disintegrate. As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks’ decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence, and madness, he ushers the listener into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip, and earthy humor.

A book that pulses with life in the midst of death, The Magic Mountain is a mammoth masterpiece of erudition and irony, sexual tension, and intellectual ferment. Mann utilises a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community dedicated solely to illness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years prior to 1914 was already displaying the initial signs of its own terminal madness, in this dizzyingly dense novel of ideas.

David - jeder kennt ihn, und kaum ein Mensch hat so ein aufregendes Leben geführt wie er. Vom Hirtenjungen wird er zum berühmten König von Israel und muss dabei viele Abenteuer und Gefahren bestehen. Schon in seiner Jugend besiegt er beispielsweise den Riesen Goliath mit einer simplen Steinschleuder. Kein Wunder, dass er damit den Neid des amtierenden Königs Saul heraufbeschwört.