The first part of this novel, “Beyle, or Love is a Madness Most Discreet,” describes the wanderings of a Napoleonic soldier who, though never revealed, is better known as the author Stendhal. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel, sometimes grouped in a trilogy with The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. In the fourth part of this novel, the narrator visits his hometown, “W,” based on its author’s hometown of Wertach.
ANSWER: Vertigo [or Schwindel. Gefühle.]
[10m] Vertigo, The Emigrants, and The Rings of Saturn are by this German author, who also wrote Austerlitz.
ANSWER: W. G. Sebald [or Winfried Georg Sebald]
[10e] The third part of Vertigo describes a period in the life of this author through the lens of his story “The Hunter Gracchus.” This author, whom Sebald calls “Dr. K,” also wrote “In the Penal Colony.”
ANSWER: Franz Kafka
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