The twentieth chapter of a novel titled for this place reads in its entirety, “I lay at your feet like a rug, Alya!” For 10 points each:
[10h] What place titles an epistolary novel written in exile by Viktor Shklovsky? That novel is repeatedly quoted in Dubravka Ugrešić’s (“oo-GRAY-sheech’s”) The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, which opens by comparing its structure to the objects found in the stomach of Roland, a dead inhabitant of this place.
ANSWER: Berlin Zoo [or Berlin Zoological Garden; or Zoologischer Garten Berlin; prompt on zoo by asking “in what city?”]
[10m] Shklovsky also wrote about Berlin in a memoir titled for a novel by this author, whom he credited with the “most typical novel in world literature.” Diderot lifted passages from a novel by this author for Jacques the Fatalist.
ANSWER: Laurence Sterne (The memoir is Sentimental Journey: Memoirs 1917–1922. The “most typical novel” is Tristram Shandy.)
[10e] Ugrešić’s compatriot Daša Drndić (“DAH-sha DURN-ditch”) used the motif of a zoo’s rhino enclosure in Doppelgänger, one of her novels that’s been compared to this author’s French-language novels like Molloy.
ANSWER: Samuel Beckett [or Samuel Barclay Beckett]
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