One novel by this author begins with the father of Sasha Dvanov (“dih-VAH-nov”) drowning himself in a lake to see the afterlife. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Soviet author of Chevengur. Workers like Zhachev and Voschev dig the title location under a large house in another novel by this author.
ANSWER: Andrei Platonovich Platonov [or Andrei Platonovich Klimentov] (the second novel is The Foundation Pit)
[10m] The British edition of Chevengur pitched it as the “Soviet” version of this book. A short story attributes authorship of this work to the fictional Pierre Menard.
ANSWER: Don Quixote [accept “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”]
[10e] A villager in Chevengur names himself after this Russian author of a novel about Prince Myshkin, The Idiot.
ANSWER: Fyodor Dostoevsky [or Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevskiy]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, European Literature>