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
Glückskindor fortunate child. The second phase is influenced by the genre of the picaresque novel founded by the anonymous Spanish author of
Lazarillo de Tormes(1554) and exemplified in Johannes Jacob…
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Citation: Gallagher, David. "Die Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 January 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11473, accessed 21 November 2024.]
