NATURALISTIC ELEMENTS IN THOMAS MANN’ S NOVEL THE BUDDENBROOKS HOUSE
NATURALISTIC ELEMENTS IN THOMAS MANN’ S NOVEL THE BUDDENBROOKS HOUSE
Author(s): Oana Carina Cîrcu (Crișan)Subject(s): Novel, German Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: Naturalism; naturalistic elements; decline; disease; degradation;
Summary/Abstract: Naturalism implies the exact observation, the documentation that paints life, nature with all its conditions. Naturalists reveal the ugly, present in reality, but the ugly is as educative as the beautiful, since that is the way the bourgeois moral is defied, and the flaw, the hypocrisy, the decomposition are given away. The atmosphere in Thomas Mann’s novel is pessimistic and the degradation is caused by the power of money. Thomas Mann describes pathological processes, the symptoms of diseases, death and biological changes. The description of diseases gives expression to restlessness and the sick humanity moves in a closed universe.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 28
- Page Range: 678-685
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Romanian