A speech compares this character’s egocentrism to the generosity of Don Quixote. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character created by a non-Russian author. In a story from A Sportsman’s Sketches, a man tells the narrator to call him by this character’s name after going on a long diatribe on the material greed of the upper class.
ANSWER: Prince Hamlet [accept “Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District” or “Hamlet of Shchigrovsky Province”]
[10e] This Russian author gave the speech “Hamlet and Don Quixote” and wrote A Sportsman’s Sketches and the novel Fathers and Sons.
ANSWER: Ivan Turgenev [or Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev]
[10m] Turgenev’s reading of Hamlet also inspired the protagonist of his novel titled for this sort of person. Inspired by the Byronic hero, this two-word term denotes characters in Russian novels who defy social norms and expectations.
ANSWER: superfluous man [or líshniy chelovék; accept Diary of a Superfluous Man]
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