Hilarious. Not a word I expected to define one of my favourite writers, Thomas Mann. The unfinished masterpiece, Confessions of Felix Krull, lives up to my memory of Mann’s nearly perfect writing. Flawless sentences, satiric pomposity, adventure, and interspersed philosophical musings on the nature of life, humankind, and beauty. What a combination, what a writer. While disappointingly lacking the completion of its story and the accompany meta-structure you’d expect from Mann’s perfectionist writing, Felix Krull still offers a satisfying and thoroughly entertaining story.