In this novel, Tony becomes friends with her teacher "Sesemi," who later continues to support Tony's daughter and granddaughter. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel, which uses motifs such as Hanno's breakfast cup of hot chocolate to symbolize decadence. This novel depicts four generations of a declining merchant family in Lübeck.
ANSWER: Buddenbrooks
[10e] This author drew on his family's history in Lübeck for the novel Buddenbrooks. This German author also wrote Death in Venice.
ANSWER: Thomas Mann
[10h] Tony's daughter in Buddenbrooks shares her name with this daughter of Thomas Mann. With her brother, Klaus, this author wrote about exiled German cultural and political figures who frequented the Mann household in the 1930s as part of the essay collection Escape to Life.
ANSWER: Erika Mann [Erika Julia Hedwig Mann]
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