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Loosely based on his own life and his large family The Tanners follows SimonTanner as he wanders from job to job in search of a calling. Along his journeyof selfdefinition we meet his other siblings the painter brother whoseromantic brooding personality attracts women the serious professorial oldestbrother whose sense of responsibility towards his younger siblings strains hisnerves the teacher sister who hates teaching but cant get herself to risk thestability of her job and the institutionalized brother whose name is hardlymentioned and whose madness potentially runs through the rest of the family.Through it all Simon explores the masterservant relationship whether inemployment or in romance that is one of the defining factors of Modernity. «
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