A pugnacious author from this city attacked Heinrich Heine for having “so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city where Karl Kraus critiqued literature and society in his periodical The Torch. A group of “young” authors from this city were memorialized in the memoir The World of Yesterday.
ANSWER: Vienna, Austria [or Wien] (The World of Yesterday is by Stefan Zweig.)
[10h] Kraus wrote this sprawling play, which features over 500 characters and dialogue between “the Optimist” and Kraus’ alter ego, “the Grumbler.” This play ends with the “Voice of God” saying “this is not what I intended” upon seeing the horrors of World War I.
ANSWER: The Last Days of Mankind [or Die letzten Tage der Menschheit]
[10e] Kraus’ constant mockery of Young Vienna authors earned him a slap from Felix Salten, who is best known for writing this novel about a motherless roe deer that is often read as an allegory for the treatment of European Jews.
ANSWER: Bambi, a Life in the Woods [or Bambi: Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde]
<S, European Literature>