Recognition of the adventurer Felix Krul. Mann T.

The most unusual novel by Thomas Mann, on whom the writer worked most of his life, from 1911 to 1954, but never completed him. A delightful parody of the “Roman of Education” and at the same time a bright stylization for the classic Plutovsky novel.

The son of a ruined winemaker Felix Krul is beautiful, like Apollo, and a rogue, like Hermes. He goes through life laughing, equally easily refers to victories and defeats and uses people in his scams so charming and witty that the victims, as under hypnosis, themselves help the charming fraudster to adopt them. The conscience is even hat. But here is a paradox: it cannot be considered a villain. In essence, it is no worse than the respectable bourgeois world, in which he breaks the path by far from respectable methods...