Historians and economists sometimes refer to the Buddenbrooks effect. The term derives from Thomas Mann's 1901 novel, Buddenbrooks, in which he depicted the decline of a bourgeois family (which rather ...

A patrician family of Luebeck merchants droops into oblivion in "Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family," a lackluster adaptation of Thomas Mann's monumental novel. Big-name German cast is aces, but ...

In the summer of 1900, Thomas Mann sent a handwritten copy of Buddenbrooks to the publisher Samuel Fischer. Małgorzata Łukasiewicz takes a close look at this work and deciphers it to uncover Mann’s ...

For 100 years it has provided testimony to a particular German past - a work of fiction that documented the 19th century better than any historian and came to define an era in which the face of the ...

Guadagnino tells IndieWire about his very personal Bertolucci documentary and reveals he is adapting Thomas Mann’s “Buddenbrooks.” “I’m editing it now,” said Guadagnino while on the podcast. “I have a ...

Thomas Mann, a Nobel laureate and literary giant, fled Germany in the 1930s, later using his voice to condemn the Nazi regime through essays and BBC broadcasts. His early success with "Buddenbrooks" ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...