Confessions of Felix Krull
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| Author | Thomas Mann |
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| Original title | Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. Der Memoiren erster Teil |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publication date | 1954 |
| Published in English |
1955 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0679739041 |
A novel by the German author Thomas Mann. Original title: Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. Der Memoiren, erster Teil. Full original English title: Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years. First published in German in 1954 and a year later in English.
Originally the character of Felix Krull appeared in a short story written in 1911. The story wasn't published until 1936, in the book Stories of Three Decades along with twenty-three other stories written between 1896 and 1929, the year in which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Much later, Mann expanded the story and managed to finish, and publish part one of the Confessions of Felix Krull, but due to his death in 1955 the saga of the morally flexible and irresistible conman, Felix, remains unfinished.
