He looks for a peculiar store called "Ladder to Heaven Street" to sell some of the jewels he stole while going through customs from Madame Houpfle, and he left his sister Olympia after his champagne making father Engelbert committed suicide.
This character is influenced by a scientific theory asserting mankind was created from slime in a series of three spontaneous generations put forth by the Professor of Natural History Dom Antonio José Kuckuck. He looks for a peculiar store called "Ladder to Heaven Street" to sell some of the jewels he stole while going through customs from Madame Houpfle, and he left his sister Olympia after his champagne making father Engelbert committed suicide. This character is inspired by watching the actor [?] Muller Rose take off his makeup and while he was working as a waiter at the Hotel Saint James and Albany in Paris he uses the name Armand. Assuming the identity of the Marquis de Venosta, the subtitle of this character's titular novel is "Confidence Man." For 10 points, name this character whose "Confessions" were written by Thomas Mann in a 1954 novel.
This character is influenced by a scientific theory asserting mankind was created from slime in a series of three spontaneous generations put forth by the Professor of Natural History Dom Antonio José Kuckuck.
{Felix Krull} (accept either) (Yeah, this tossup is way too hard-TG)