by Thomas Mann · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401421761
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«Confesiones del estafador Félix Krull» is the novel by Thomas Mann, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback, in Spanish.
Félix Krull is a charming young man who discovers that his ability to lie opens the doors of high society for him. The novel follows his deceptions and changes of identity as he rises through affluent circles. Thomas Mann portrays a bourgeois society obsessed with appearances and reflects on identity and morality.
The translation is by Alberto Luis Bixio and this Spanish-language edition was published in 1990. The work originally appeared in 1954.
For readers of twentieth-century European fiction who appreciate social satire and ambiguous protagonists.
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.
