Overeating, Indigestion, Hunger: Eating Dysfunctions as Narrative Strategies in Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks

Agnieszka K. HAAS

Zakład Literatury i Kultury Niemieckiej, Instytut Filologii Germańskiej, Wydział Filologiczny, Uniwersytet Gdański, ul. Wita Stwosza 51, 80-316 Gdańsk, Poland , Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2768-5981


Abstract

Thomas Mann’s novel Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (1901) contains many themes connected with food and the related social, psychological, and cultural phenomena. Not only do the themes in question complete the picture of reality presented in Mann’s work, but they also constitute an element of the writer’s narrative strategy. The author of the article focuses on the antithetically related motifs of overeating, indigestion, and hunger, addressing also their aesthetic function, and concludes that they do not constitute components of the represented world, but structural elements of the novel.

Keywords:

Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks, food, novel, Schopenhauer

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2022-10-23


HAAS, A. K. (2022). Przejedzenie, niestrawność, głód. Dysfunkcje jedzenia jako strategie narracyjne w powieści Buddenbrookowie Thomasa Manna. Ethos. Quarterly of The John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of Lublin, 35(1 (137). https://doi.org/10.12887/35-2022-1-137-09

Agnieszka K. HAAS 
Zakład Literatury i Kultury Niemieckiej, Instytut Filologii Germańskiej, Wydział Filologiczny, Uniwersytet Gdański, ul. Wita Stwosza 51, 80-316 Gdańsk, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2768-5981



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