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This character recalls a poem ending, “cool and star bright is our eternal laughter.” This character dismisses the horrors of the Middle Ages to illustrate how he is “caught between two ages.” This man swings from a comet-like pigtail of a composer whom he considers one of the “immortals.” (15[1])A treatise (15[1])from a man advertising “ANARCHIST EVENING ENTERTAINMENT” (15[1])convinces this character that he is one of the (*) “suicides.” This character sees a woman shrink down to a chess piece in a building where he relives his love for Rosa Kreisler. A saxophonist murders this man’s lover Hermine in the Magic Theater, (10[1])which he first comes across behind a door labeled “FOR MADMEN ONLY.” For (10[1])10 points, name this lupine protagonist of a novel by Hermann Hesse. ■END■

ANSWER: Harry Haller [or Harry Haller; accept Steppenwolf]
<HG, European Literature>
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