While staying at a hotel in this town, Grigory Litvinov tries to remember what woman could have given him a glass of heliotropes he discovers on his windowsill. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this non-Russian setting of the novel Smoke. A novel titled for a Summer in this place, written by Soviet Jewish author Leonid Tsypkin, uses loads of run-on sentences to describe Dostoevsky’s time spent gambling there.
ANSWER: Baden-Baden [or Baden; accept Summer in Baden-Baden]
[10e] The German spa town of Baden-Baden was where this author of Fathers and Sons set the present-day action of his novel Smoke.
ANSWER: Ivan Turgenev [or Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev]
[10m] The title Gambler of Dostoevsky’s novel has this first name. A different Dostoevsky character with this first name, who works as a novice in a monastery, gets told a story about the Grand Inquisitor.
ANSWER: Alexei [or Alyosha; or Alexei Ivanovich; or Alexei Karamazov; or Alyosha Karamazov]
<Darren Petrosino, European Literature>