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At the end of this novella’s first section, its protagonist looks around for a man in a straw hat on the platform while waiting for a tram. (20[1])The protagonist of this novella starts regularly seeing a barber who dyes his hair (20[1]0[1])following a dream about a Dionysian (20[1])“stranger-god.” (20[3])In this novella, (20[1]0[1])the recently-ennobled (20[1])author (20[1])of the The Abject (20[1])is unsettled (20[1])by (20[1])multiple red-haired foreigners (20[4]0[1])and (20[1])is told that the smell of (*) disinfectant (10[1])is really (10[1])just the (10[1])“sirocco.” After eating overripe strawberries, (10[2])this (10[1])novella’s protagonist (0[1])dies of cholera while (10[1])obsessing over a fourteen-year-old Polish boy called Tadzio (“TAH-joe”). Gustav von Aschenbach (“GOO-stahv von ASH-uhn-BACK”) is the protagonist of, (10[1])for 10 points, what Thomas Mann novella set in Italy? (10[1]0[2])■END■ (10[2]0[3])

ANSWER: Death in Venice [or Der Tod in Venedig]
<Gabriel Guedes, Literature - European - Short Fiction&gt; ~13647~ &lt;Editor: Joseph Krol>
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2023 PACE NSC06/10/2023Y3385%52%0%67.39

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