Question
In diatribes to Gambetti, one of this author’s narrators criticizes his family for, among other things, paying full price for theater tickets, comparing them unfavorably to his cultured Uncle Georg. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author of Extinction. In another novel by this author, the narrator viciously criticizes the “artistic [bankruptcy]” of the Burgtheater and its actors while incessantly repeating the phrase “sitting in the wing chair.”
ANSWER: Thomas Bernhard [or Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard]
[10e] Near the end of Woodcutters, the narrator assumes a grudging respect for an actor in this play, whom he’d spent much of the novel criticizing. That Burgtheater actor plays Ekdal in this Ibsen play, which ends with Hedvig’s suicide.
ANSWER: The Wild Duck [or Vildanden]
[10h] Bernhard blames the failure of his play The Hunting Party on the Burgtheater and its “matinee idols” in a novel whose narrator, a patient at the Herrmann Pavilion, strikes up a friendship with this person, a mental patient. A description is acceptable.
ANSWER: Paul Wittgenstein [accept Wittgenstein’s Nephew; accept any answer that indicates the nephew of Ludwig Wittgenstein; prompt on Wittgenstein; reject “Ludwig Wittgenstein”]
<Tim Morrison, European Literature>
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