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...Black Swan, published in 1951 and 1953, respectively, show a relaxation of intensity in spite of their accomplished, even virtuoso style. Mann rounded off his imaginative work in 1954 with The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, the light, often uproariously funny story of a confidence man who wins the favour and love of others by enacting the roles they desire of him.
...the slow collapse of a society into anarchy and chaos, in The Man Without Qualities (1930–43); the brilliant irony whereby Thomas Mann represents the hero as a confidence man in The Confessions of Felix Krull (1954); the grimly parodic account of Germany’s descent into madness in Günter Grass’s novel The Tin Drum (1959). The English novel contains a rich vein of...
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