Thread: Literary Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
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Old 07-24-2013, 06:08 AM   #54
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Still...I do like reading this book as it takes one within this family and within this period in German history.
And I must admit that I find it increasingly funny (I never expected it). I don't know if this comes across with the English translation but the original contains a lot of subtil humour and irony.
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