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THE CONFIDENCE MAN

Third Programme
on Third Programme

by Alastair FowleT
Mr. Fowler discusses the literary idea of the confidence man, the character who pretends to be what he is not to gain credit. He traces its evolution from early picaresque novels through Melville and Mark Twain to Thomas Mann and John Barth.

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Alastair Fowlet
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Mark Twain
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Thomas Mann
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John Barth.
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