Gerda Buddenbrook : eine verführte Verführerin : eine Studie dieser Frauenfigur unter der Perpektive der typisierten Formen der Femme Fragile and Femme Fatale

Abstract

The author attempts to show how, in Buddenbrooks, Gerda Buddenbrook reveals mythological and symbolist features which are only to be apparent to a significant degree in Thomas Mann's later work. The article also explains how this figure — based on the autor's mother Katia — is part of the long tradition of «femmes fatales».