Kein anderes Werk hat Thomas Mann über einen so langen Zeitraum beschäftigt wie die Hochstaplergeschichte von Felix Krull. Begonnen 1910, erschien der Roman 1954 und begleitete damit beinahe das gesamte schriftstellerische Leben des Autors. Aus dem reichen Material, das Thomas Mann in mehr als vier Jahrzehnten zusammengetragen hat, schöpfen die Herausgeber dieser Edition alle wesentlichen Fakten und erschließen den kompletten Horizont, der zu der ebenso vergnüglichen wie literarisch beeindruckenden Komposition des Romans führte. Zum ersten Mal wird die komplexe Überlieferungslage systematisch aufgearbeitet und textkritisch ausgewertet.
Author
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. See also: Serbian: Tomas Man Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur.
