Books and Arts -- Book Review 文学与艺术——书评 Literary lives -- Daylight on the magic 文学生涯——揭开魔法 The Magician. By Colm Toibin. 《魔术师》，作者：科姆·托宾。 Thomas Mann’s last, unfinished novel tells of a confidence trickster named Felix Krull. 托马斯·曼最后一部未完成的小说讲述了一个名叫菲利克斯·克鲁尔的骗子的故事。 In “The Magician”, Colm Toibin’s fictionalised portrait of the great German writer, the ageing Mann thinks of himself as a similar “dodger” who “got away with things”. 在科尔姆·托宾对这位伟大德国作家的虚构肖像描写作品《魔术师》中，日渐衰老的曼认为自己像是一个“逃避现实的人”。 He believes that the skill to “reverse their own story as the wind changed” is a hallmark of humankind. 他认为，“随着风向变化改变自己的行事”的技能是人类的典型特征。 In Mr Toibin’s immersive novel about the author’s life and times, Mann is a consummate actor. 在托宾这部关于作者生活和时代的沉浸式小说中，曼是一个完美的演员。