Будденброки. История гибели одного семейства

"Buddenbroki. Istorii͡a gibeli odnogo semeĭstva" - debi͡utnyĭ roman vydai͡ushchegosi͡a nemet͡skogo pisateli͡a Tomasa Manna (1875-1955), otmechennyĭ Nobelevskoĭ premieĭ po literature (1929). "Estʹ nechto neobychaĭnoe v svoevolii proizvedenii͡a", - pisal Mann o rabote nad pervoĭ knigoĭ. Zadumannai͡a kak nebolʹshoĭ "kupecheskiĭ" roman na dvesti pi͡atʹdesi͡at stranit͡s, ona prevratilasʹ v khroniku neskolʹkikh pokoleniĭ predprinimatelʹskoĭ dinastii iz starinnogo goroda Li͡ubeka. Osnovateli͡u dinastii, torgovt͡su zernom Iogannu Buddenbroku, udalosʹ razbogatetʹ i zasluzhitʹ uvazhenie gorozhan. Odnako semeĭnoe predprii͡atie - radostʹ i gordostʹ Ioganna - prinosit ego deti͡am i vnukam ne bezmi͡atezhnoe spokoĭstvie, a serʹeznye ispytanii͡a…

"Buddenbrooks. The Story of the Death of a Family" is the debut novel by the outstanding German writer Thomas Mann (1875-1955), who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1929). "There is something extraordinary about the self—will of the work," Mann wrote about working on the first book. Conceived as a small two-hundred-and-fifty-page "merchant" novel, it turned into a chronicle of several generations of an entrepreneurial dynasty from the ancient city of Lubeck. The founder of the dynasty, grain merchant Johann Buddenbroek, managed to get rich and earn the respect of the townspeople. However, the family business — Johann's joy and pride — brings his children and grandchildren not serene tranquility, but serious challenges.…