The great German writer Thomas Mann (1875–1955) conceived the novel “Confessions of an Impostor, Felix Krull” even before World War I, and completed it in 1954. A story about the adventures of the charming rogue Krull, endowed with rich imagination, consistently enjoys success with readers around the world. Felix Krull is angelically handsome, clever, talented—radiance emanates from him. The story of Felix Krull tells not only how a person like him conquers the world. Not only how—while climbing the steps upward—he pays no heed that those steps are made of living people. But also how people, drunk on Krull’s talents, do not notice that they are becoming toys in his hands.