The narrator of a story recalls living in one of these objects between decks in a steamer, where he learns to uncork and drink from a schnapps bottle. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these objects contrasted with the “way of humanity” in “A Report to an Academy.” A character in a different story leans on two young ladies as he is forced to leave one of these objects every 40 days.
ANSWER: cages [or Käfige; prompt on synonyms or broader terms like enclosures or pens or coops]
[10e] Max Weber’s “iron cage” is often compared to the vision of bureaucracy in works by this author of “A Report to an Academy” and “The Hunger Artist.”
ANSWER: Franz Kafka [or František Kafka]
[10h] The most popular of Kafka’s 109 Zürau Aphorisms imagines a cage performing this specific action. This action titles a 2024 anthology of “Kafkaesque stories” by writers like Yiyun Li and Ali Smith.
ANSWER: going in search of a bird [or searching for a bird; or “Ein Käfigging einen Vogel suchen”; accept A Cage Went in Search of a Bird; accept looking or synonyms in place of “searching”; prompt on searching or synonyms by asking “for what?”]
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