Thomas Mann, Die Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull [The Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man]

David Gallagher (Independent Scholar - Europe)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1954

Places

Germany (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel
Picaresque

Resources

Thomas Mann worked on this Schelmenroman (rogue’s novel), Die Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. Der Memoiren erster Teil [The Confessions of a Confidence Trickster, Felix Krull. First Part of the Memoirs, 1954], for two periods between 1910-13 and 1951-54 and it was published in its unfinished form a year before his death in 1955. The first creative phase has been shown to be inspired by three creative models: Georges Manolescu’s memoirs A Prince of Thieves (1905), Goethe’s autobiography Dichtung und Wahrheit [Poetry and Truth, 1813, 1831] and the fairy-tale motif of the Glü…

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Citation: Gallagher, David. "Die Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 January 2008 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11473, accessed 26 April 2024.]

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