In one scene in this novel, the protagonist is awarded the Portuguese Order of the Red Lion for amusing King Dom Carlos with his imitation of a dog, while assuming the identity of the Marquis Venosta.
In one scene in this novel, the protagonist is awarded the Portuguese Order of the Red Lion for amusing King Dom Carlos with his imitation of a dog, while assuming the identity of the Marquis Venosta. In another scene, the protagonist makes love to a woman who has sexual fantasies of being robbed, while he is employed as a hotel elevator boy under the name Armand, a job he assumes on the advice of his godfather, Professor Schimmelpreester, after the family champagne-manufacturing business goes bust. The protagonist's early aptitude for pretending to be ill to avoid school is put to use when he fakes epilepsy during a draft board examination to evade conscription. An expansion of a 1911 short story from the author's collection, Stories of Three Decades, this is, FTP, what final and unfinished picaresque novel of Thomas Mann's about the early years of the title confidence man?
In one scene in this novel, the protagonist is awarded the Portuguese Order of the Red Lion for amusing King Dom Carlos with his imitation of a dog, while assuming the identity of the Marquis Venosta.
Confessions of {Felix Krull}, Confidence Man: The Early Years [or Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers {Felix Krull}. Der Memoiren, erster Teil]