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To the Editor: Sickness and health figure prominently in the fiction of Thomas Mann (1875–1955). Whereas his preoccupation with disease may at first seem distasteful to the lay reader,¹ it enhances his appeal for the reader who is a physician.² Mann's first major novel, Buddenbrooks (1901),³ follows a prosperous German family for 40 years. Each new generation is less respectable, less morally sound, and less healthy — physically and emotionally — than the preceding one. The last-born male in the Buddenbrook line is Johann ("Hanno") Buddenbrook (1861–1875).

Hanno Buddenbrook is born after a difficult delivery. He is a "silent and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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