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While pushing a rowboat into a lake, a woman in a novel by this author loses her footing and drops her baby cousin, causing him to drown. This author’s childhood lover confronts him for fictionalizing her in a novel subtitled The Beloved Returns. A contemporary of this author parodied one of his novels by adding chicken’s blood to its final scene. In a novel by this author, the love Captain Otto feels for (*) Eduard’s wife (10[1])and Eduard feels for Ottilie are explained by chemical reactions. (10[2])A character created (10[1])by this author cries after the girl he loves says the name “Klopstock.” (10[1])That character (10[1])created (-5[1])by this author of Elective Affinities (-5[1])is buried under a linden tree after he commits suicide due to Albert marrying his beloved Charlotte. For 10 points, name this German author of The Sorrows of Young Werther. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (The second line is Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns by Thomas Mann. The parody is Friedrich Nicolai’s The Joys of Young Werther.)
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