🌹女婿安冬妮的女婿装腔作势、安冬妮女儿的女婿不知天高地厚，他们假的多么明显，却都被自己的父亲，自己的母亲认为是最适合的人，因为他们都希望通过婚姻得到些什么，结果最后不是以离婚收场就是进入监狱。🌹儿子托马斯希望自己的儿子能够继承家业，没想到儿子却喜欢音乐，与自己的关系更是不知如何说起，间隙较大。🌹爱情每个人都希望得到爱情，却没有一个人如愿！🌹阶层布登勃洛克家的老宅子被新兴的中产阶级买去的桥段，让我想到了石黑一雄的《长日将尽》、茨威格的《昨日的世界：一个欧洲人的回忆》，一个时代落幕了，一个时代开启了！人总是怀念过往中度过。

The story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences, intrinsically the same, vary slightly as they recur in each succeeding generation. Yet as the Buddenbrooks family eventually succumbs to the seductions of modernity -- seductions that are at variance with its own traditions -- its downfall becomes certain. In immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modem family chronicles; it has, indeed, proved a model for most of them. Judged as the greatest of Mann's novels by some critics, it is ranked as among the greatest by all. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929.

文笔优美，人物性格突出，读来有很强的代入感，随着布登勃洛克家族的兴衰，让人对人命运的无常不胜唏嘘。