Question

A visit to the Salzburg salt mines led this author to analogize falling in love to the process of “crystallization” in On Love. For 10 points each:
[10e] An experience of fainting in the Basilica of Santa Croce (“KROH-chay”) inspired a “syndrome” triggered by great beauty, named for what author of The Charterhouse of Parma?
ANSWER: Stendhal [or Marie-Henri Beyle; accept Stendhal syndrome]
[10m] This poet who promoted “magical idealism” wrote much of his work while director of the Saxony salt mines. A 13th-century Minnesinger (“MIN-uh-zing-er”) goes spelunking and searches for a blue flower in a fragmentary novel by this author.
ANSWER: Novalis [or Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg] (The novel is Heinrich von Ofterdingen.)
[10h] A visit to the Wieliczka (“v’yeh-LEECH-ka”) Salt Mines informed depictions of the Egyptian Labyrinth in this author’s novel Pharaoh. In a Positivist novel by this author, a merchant abandons science and pines after a shallow aristocrat to enter high society.
ANSWER: Bolesław Prus (“prooss”) (The novel is The Doll.)
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