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A novel (emphasize) about this author describes his “tacit agreements” with his wife not to “put domestic happiness in jeopardy.” A novella by this author ends by praising the “bourgeois love” for “the happy, lovely, and commonplace.” This author’s half-Brazilian parentage inspired the family of a character who is mistaken for a criminal when he returns to his hometown without his (-5[1])papers, and who sees his two childhood loves dancing together at a Danish resort. This European author’s life is fictionalized in Colm Tóibín’s (“CALL-um toh-BEAN’s”) novel The Magician. Hanno dies of typhoid in a novel by this author about the collapse of a (10[1])Lübeck (10[1])grain merchant family. For 10 points, the semi-autobiographical Tonio Kröger and Buddenbrooks are by what German author who wrote about Hans Castorp in The Magic Mountain? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Thomas Mann [or Paul Thomas Mann]
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Noah Dean (DII)KenyonMichigan C60-5
Yashwanth Bajji (DII)Michigan AOhio State B10110
Biyang Zhang (DII)Michigan BOhio State A10210
Kevin Zheng (DII)Michigan CKenyon12810