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While not the most artistic, this is the most delightful thing I've read by Mann. It's a slightly picaresque tale of a young man/chameleon's adventures in a turn of the century Europe, a more civilized (and perhaps over-civilized) time from when it was written. I was quite surprised at just how positive a mindset Krull maintains through luck and tragedy, while Mann it seemed had an inherently tragic disposition