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At a dinner in this novel, a character points out that a traitor in the newspaper shares his name with this novel’s protagonist. This novel’s protagonist offends the wife of a professor of Oriental Mythology when he openly criticizes an engraving that shows Goethe as “empty and self-satisfied.” A character in this novel enters a door that says “GUIDANCE IN THE BUILDING UP OF THE PERSONALITY,” and sees chess pieces rearrange themselves to represent alternate realities. After a character in this novel shops for a gramophone, he goes to The Black Eagle to learn the foxtrot. In a building labeled “FOR MADMEN ONLY,” this novel’s protagonist stabs Hermine. For 10 points, the Magic Theater is a location in what Herman Hesse novel that features Harry Haller? ■END■

ANSWER: Der Steppenwolf
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