by T. Mann · Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596294299
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«Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull» is the novel by Thomas Mann, published by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (498 pages, in German).
Felix Krull, a charismatic young man from a ruined family, eager for luxury and elegance, dodges military service and makes his way into high society through deceit and imposture. After swapping his identity with the Marquis de Venosta, he travels from Paris to Lisbon in a comedy of masks that celebrates fiction and the art of self-presentation.
It corresponds to the first part of Felix Krull's memoirs («Der Memoiren erster Teil»), originally published in 1954.
For readers of German literature and twentieth-century classics: an ironic novel about identity and imposture.
Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modern versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer.
