Confessions of Felix Krull
by Thomas Mann · first published 1955
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…not all of them are the kind of malign criminals as these media stories portray them. Since it's holiday season, I'll give a more comprehensive answer with a literature recommendation: Thomas Mann's Confessions of Felix Krull. I'm pretty sure you'll like it if you haven't read it yet. Also relevant would be Gottfried Keller's Kleider machen Leute (clothes make the man), a beautiful love story. Unfortunately it apparently has…
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