The confessions of the Hochstaplers Felix Krull. The memoirs first part is a humoristic novel of Thomas's man. He draws the development of the Hochstaplers Felix Krull from its childhood after and can as Parodie on the novel type of the development novel be seen. Thomas's man to the novel 1905 already collected first ideas and worked, again and again however not continuously on it. 1954 were published the novel as fragment.

Developing history

Already 1905 is first notes to Felix Krull, but only 1910 begin Thomas's man to work seriously on the novel. First fragments are printed 1911 and 1919. 1922 and 1923 the book of the childhood appears. The first book and the first five chapters of the second book are printed 1937. Short considerations to continue the novel are displaced by the work on the doctor Faustus. Only it takes the work to 1951. After various preprints the whole novel appears 1954 in the S. Fischer publishing house, Frankfurt/Main.

The hero origin

Thus the biography of the Aufsteigers Felix Krull, Sohn of a sparkling wine manufacturer from Eltville begins:

"The Rhine gau me, that favoured region, which, and without Schroffheit both in regard to the weather conditions and to the ground condition, populates gentle richly occupied with cities and localities and merrily, brought out probably to the loveliest inhabited earth heard. "

Juvenile Eros

The boy is already characterised by unusual physical well-being shape and extraordinary erotische gift:

"It came, not without effort Genovefas, on the dark course before the door of my to a meeting, gradually the inside the room over there-played themselves and to full mutual possession there led ["Â…] If refuge protects, then it seemed me, I alone in Genovefas arms would find. ["Â…] Mark-consumption-end, trueful outrageous pleasures, which I tested at Genovefas whiter and probably fed chest [extracts itself] anyhow all description. I cried and believed towards skies to drive. "

Merkur

Regrettably the father, still leads a sparkling wine manufacturer, his company in the youth years of the hero into the bankruptcy. Felix is forced to look for its luck in "the foreigner ". Its good appearance, with which it women and men in the same way, his word skill and singular help the gelehrigen genious by the lives. From the military service it frees itself by a schauspielerisches masterpiece:

"My face distorted itself - however with it is little said. No human passion distorted itself in a in my opinion completely new and frighten-exciting kind, thus, like, but only teuflischer influence and drive a people face to distort can. My courses were literally apart-blown up after all four sides, upward and down, on the right of and left, in order to together-shrink immediately thereafter again against the center; a horribly one-sided Grinsen tore thereafter my left, then my right cheek up"Â… "

Triumphant advance and blew traces

Krull, the favourite of the Gods, narcissus, Merkur and actors start its triumphant advances. He sees many countries cities and humans, trains his blenderischen arts further and plays the other something. Felix Krull will in Paris arm and Kroull, the Liftboy becomes a waiter (and beside hotel thief). His victim, a certain madame enjoys the Bestohlenwerden It is wonderfully degraded by the physical attractions and trained dear arts of the thief and satisfied up to the exhaustion. From the poor Krull - what lucky and purely coincidental adding - the wealthy becomes. As Marquis de Venosta (in place of the genuine Marquis, naturally) and equipped with sumptuous travel chest, he finally breaks open to a journey around the world. How this ends, we are never experienced. Here our history, the novel loses itself remains fragment.

Literature

Helmut Koopmann: "Confessions of the Hochstaplers Felix Krull", in: ders. (Hg.): Thomas man manual, 3. , updated edition, Stuttgart 2001, P. 516-533. (with detailed bibliographic instructions) ISBN 3520828030 (sideidentical expenditure for paperback in Fischer paperback publishing house ISBN 3596166101)

Filmings

The book was filmed 1981-82 as fifth-hasty TV serial, film script and direction Bernhard Sinkel. Also a version was provided, which does not become fair however the complex work Thomas's of man. John Moulder Brown embodied Felix Krull, Klaus Schwarzkopf its father.

A classical author is Kurt Hoffmann filming (1957) with refuge book wood as Felix Krull.

Web left, original reading of Thomas's man

• Kurt Hoffmann filming of
• Exist clay/tone photographs of Thomas's man, who reads from Felix Krull. The verschmitzte joy of the author during the reading is to be marked still to the old clay/tone photographs clearly: ISBN 3899402634
• Thomas's man figure encyclopedia '' on-line ''

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