Books : Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years
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by: Thomas Mann
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 833.912
EAN: 9780679739043
ISBN: 0679739041
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: March 31, 1992
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: March 31, 1992
Sales Rank: 311678
Studio: Vintage
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Recounts the enchanted career of the con man extraordinaire Felix Krull--a man unhampered by the moral precepts that govern the conduct of ordinary people.
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Rating:  - Aesthete's Gather Round, and enjoy this book
If you're a struggling writer, artist, musician, Thomas Mann is for you. This book is wildly funny and satisfying.
The author understands the struggle and invites you in. The protaganist of the novel is realistic and naughty. You will see how Mann has inspired other writer's in his wake---look at the Talented Mr. Ripley novels by Patricia Highsmith---this book was her inspiration.
Rating: - a prostitute ply her trade
"Confessions of Felix Krull - Confidence Man" by Thomas Mann, © 1955
I have read this before, but I wanted to make sure I remembered right. He does mention watching a prostitute ply her trade, but it is not as much as Gabriel García Márquez does in "Love in the Time of Cholera," which I will have to read again, as well, to refresh my memory of the story.
Such a book, you would never imagined that a Nobel winning, world renowned author like Thomas Mann would have written ... Read More
Rating: - A Cautionary Tale For The Pseudo-Intellectual
THE CONFESSIONS OF FELIX KRULL CONFIDENCE MAN is Tomas Mann's last work, and reportedly the first part of a longer, fictitious autobiography that Mann was never to finish.
Felix Krull, the narrator, begins his story by recalling his upper middle class childhood, and recounting the loss of his family's fortune, which leads to a series of memorable adventures in Europe.
The book breezily entertains episode after episode until one long dreary stretch of drudgery near the ... Read More
Rating: - A Portrait of Narcissism
Finishing this novel left me wishing Mann had lived long enough to give us the second volume. I found his depiction of Krull to be an exquisite-- and hilarious-- exploration of narcissism from the narcissist's point of view. How delicious! The astounding egotism the protagnoist shows is a promise that he would have many adventures and his hints about jail time suggest that he over-stepped his bounds at least one time too many. How unfortunate for us readers that Mann died before he could complete ... Read More
Rating: - Mann in a humorous vein
This picaresque novel of adventure by the writer of such ponderous masterpieces as _The Magic Mountain_ is one of my favorite books.
Many readers who come to it after _Buddenbrooks_ or "Tonio Kroeger" note the parallels Mann felt existed between the artist and the confidence man. In Tonio Kroeger, the eponymous central character has an encounter in his home town where he's mistaken briefly for a con man. In the earlier story, it's an incident full of irony. In _Felix Krull_, Mann turns that ... Read More
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