Question

The narrator of a novel by this author suggests that his neighbor sponsored a midwife so that townspeople would stop “borrowing” the man’s horse out of spite. (-5[1])This author may have intentionally left unfinished a novel that concludes as the protagonist “caught hold of a fille de chambre’s...end of Vol. II.” A character created by this author explains freedom by drawing a wiggly line in the air with his walking stick, which Balzac reproduced in the epigraph to (*) The Wild Ass’s Skin. A novel by this author uses a completely black page to represent the death of a character who also travels through France and Italy (-5[1])in a satirical (10[1])“sentimental journey” by (-5[1])this author. The protagonist believes his life to be altered after Dr. Slop’s forceps flatten his nose in a novel (10[1])by this author that features his alter ego Parson Yorick. For 10 points, name this author of Tristram Shandy. (10[2])■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Laurence Sterne
<HG, British Literature>
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Yash MandaviaIllinois BChicago B105-5
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Tanuj ChandekarIndianaNotre Dame B13110
Nermeen RahmanChicago BIllinois B15010
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