사랑과 죽음의 바다 - 토마스 만의 『부덴브로크 일가』에 묘사된 발트해 휴양도시 트라베뮌데

Abstract

Travemünde on the Baltic Sea is currently a beach in Lübeck city. Thomas Mann, who was born in a Hansa city, Lübeck that dominated the Northern Europe grew up seeing the Baltic Sea in Travemünde. Buddenbrooks(1901)is the novel about the collapse process of Lübeck which was a free, and important trade city in the Baltic Sea written by Thomas Mann from his remembrance of Lübeck city in his childhood. This paper shows the below two facts based on the analysis on Travemünde, a resort city in the Baltic Sea described in Buddenbrooks(Travemünde and Lübeck were separated cities in the middle of the 19th century, the historical backdrop of this novel)First, this paper is pointing out that Travemünde in the novel reflects the view of the resort city in his days and the custom of Travemünde in the book is also identical to that of the time when the writer lived there. Second, although Travemünde is well described in this work, Thomas Mann is the writer not interested in landscape description by nature. Thus, he says that the sea is not an object of landscapes, but that of metaphysical experience. This paper followed his such assertion in analyzing the symbolism of Travemünde Sea: Travemünde was the sea of love and death for him. It means that Lübeck embodied the place of living, while Travemünde represented the space for death/spirit contrasting life. Seen in this light, we can see how the early Thomas Mann's work deploys through place its main thema, life and death/spirit.