BookBuddenbrooks
It's such a sensitive and wonderful book. I've read it in two days and I'm reading it again and again. I'm identifying myself with Hanno Buddenbrook - I also try to do my homowork at 6 o'clock in the morning and I love operas by Richard Wagner (however I hope I won't die of typhus). Some moments in the book are breathtaking, for example when Tony B. and Morten sit on the seaside with a feeling of freedom. Every time I read the ending I wish I could write as well as Thomas Mann (however I know that it's probably impossible). I read also 'The Magic Mountain' and 'Doktor Faustus', and they are both amazing. I think that both 'Doktor Faustus' and 'Buddenbrooks' are my favourite books of Mann and Mann (alongside with Fyodor Dostoevsky) is my favourite writer. I love his short stories, my favourites are 'Tonio Kroeger' and 'Tristan'. Thomas Mann was a GREAT writer and we should always remember his works.
/Agata, Poland
It is simply splendid!
/Alonso de Gortari, Mexico
An epic and a great story concerning family history.
/Kamil, Poland
It is actually one of the best books I have ever read. It is funny but of course in the typical Thomas Mann style also not easy to read, but, when you have read the first 300 pages it begins to be good.
/Ulricke, Netherlands
BookDeath in Venice
(Der Tod in Venedig)
Is the most beautiful drama I've read in my life.
/Nelson, Colombia
I loved the rich, beautiful language, as well as the philosophical quality of Mann's prose. It really made me rethink certain things!
/Mina, Greece
Maybe one of the best representations of those dark sides of one's soul, that are lived but not accepted, and of how they make, and finish, our lives; all that thru a character and a story that could be, at a time, a symbolism game. Freezing and splendid, wonderful.
/Santiago Bullard, Peru
BookDoctor Faustus
(Doktor Faustus)
The book was very wellwritten and, given the historical setting, it was a nice-to-see easy-to-comprehend novel amongst the other modernist challenging fictions. Not that Mann's novel lacked profundity, but the Great German still trusted language enough to let it tell his story, unlike - say - Joyce or Woolf. All in all, a great book.
/Filip Ionescu, Romania
The best book about modern art ever written.
/Mikhail, Russia
BookJoseph and His Brothers
(Joseph und seine Brüder)
Deep is the well of the past ...
/Eric L. Hinderliter, Lithuania
BookThe Magic Mountain
(Der Zauberberg)
It's a story about life itself in all its comi-tragedy absolute. A story about art, philosophy, religion, and a great story of time with all its power to change our lives, a story about faith when Hans Castorp breaks the chains of mediocracy and get's involved in a struggle that his cousin didn't had a chance. It’s a story about us, and it gives us a message to stand up and to turn the light on.
/Semir Lakota, Bosnia & Herzegovina
A deeply spellbinding book that keeps you reading and once drawn into the story it doesn't let go. The final pages manage to do the magic as the author in just a few lines puts the reader with his or her fet back on the ground.
/Leo, Netherlands
This is the most interesting and sophisticated story I ever read!
/Katalin, Hungary
Amazing piece of art, full of profound philosophical ideas about almost all problems of human existence, told with sweeping enthusiasm and joy of writing. After more than a half-year since I read it, it still makes me think about many problems in the world around.
/ Jiří Soukup, Czech Republic
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