Um herói de duas faces – sobre as ambiguidades do Impostor Felix Krull
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2237-1184.v0i27p114-130Keywords:
Bildungsroman, Picaresque novel, Thomas Mann, Felix KrullAbstract
Thomas Mann's novel Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull) combines elements of the Bildungsroman and the picaresque novel. This mixture confers a strong ambiguity to the character of the protagonist, who justifies his impostures by elaborating what we might call a "theory of interchangeability": in a society in which social roles could be exchanged without anyone noticing, imposture ceases to be a transgression to become the rule itself.
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Frungillo, M. L. (2018). Um herói de duas faces – sobre as ambiguidades do Impostor Felix Krull. Literatura E Sociedade, 23(27), 114-130. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2237-1184.v0i27p114-130