In this series, a shipping clerk buys easily rippable tights for a women’s wrestling league that he tries to start to “save” Ilona from a knife-throwing act. In this series, a Bible study session formatted as a play script ends with men singing “Lord God of Sabaoth,” part of a Salvation Army motif that includes verse chapters about the girl Marie. The last part of this series contains many chapters reflecting on the role of “private theologies” in a 500-year-long process called the “disintegration of values.” Milan (*) Kundera’s essays often praised this “polyphonic” series, in which Eduard von Bertrand’s homosexuality is exposed by Esch, who is later bayoneted by the deserter Huguenau. Lieutenant (10[1])Joachim von Pasenow (10[2])is the title “Romantic” of the first part of (10[1])this series, which proceeds to parts (10[1])on the “Anarchist” and the “Realist.” For 10 points, (-5[1])name this modernist trilogy by (10[1])Hermann Broch. ■END■ (10[6]0[3])