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Confessions of an adventurer Felix Krul

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Confessions of an adventurer Felix Krul
4.99 €
Thomas Mann's most unusual novel, which the writer worked on for most of his life, from 1911 to 1954, but never completed. A delightful parody of the "novel of education" and at the same time a vivid stylization of the classic novel of knavery. The son of a bankrupt winemaker, Felix Krul is as beautiful as Apollo and as devious as Hermes. He goes through life laughing, equally easy to treat victories and defeats and uses people in his scams so charmingly and wittily that the victims, as if under hypnosis, themselves help charming swindler to rob them. Krul is stunningly unscrupulous, with conscience is unknown even in passing. But here is the paradox: it is impossible to consider him a scoundrel. In fact, he is no worse than respectable bourgeois world, in which he makes his way far from respectable methods ...
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