Question

This author’s theories of “two-track time” and “branch lines of time” are analyzed in Regions of the Great Heresy, (15[1])Jerzy Ficowski’s (“YEH-zhih feet-SAWF-skeez”) monograph on this author. To make up for a pornographic book being out of stock, the narrator of a story by this author is given a complicated “folding telescope” that in fact unfolds into a car. (15[1])This author’s first book, written in postscripts of letters to Debora Vogel, ends with a story in which a new constellation called “The Cyclist” appears. This author’s recurring characters include the maid (*) Adela, who in one story rips pages from a book (10[1])called “The Book.” (10[1])This author’s father turns into a crab and is boiled in the story (10[2]-5[1])“Father’s Last Escape.” The unfinished novel The Messiah was lost after this author was shot in Drohobycz (“droh-HOH-beech”) due to a rivalry between two Gestapo officers. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, name this Polish author of Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass and The Street of Crocodiles. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Bruno Schulz
<Milan Fernandez, European Literature>
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2023 Chicago Open08/05/2023Y989%22%22%100.00

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Matt BollingerTeam Name Think DetailI would prefer not to1815
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Will AlstonCurse you, Periplus the Platypus!The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.)9810
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James OreficeHang et al., Robert BrowningIn Search of Things Past11410
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Tracy MirkinThe Catastrophic Implosion of Packet SubQuasicrystal Silence11410
Mitch McCullarDon't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid TooI prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble13910
Jerry VinokurovTeach Us to Outgrow Our Ladnesswave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp139-5
Michael CoatesEvans Hall destruction awaitersSaint Peter Andre 30001600
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