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One of this author’s characters realizes the extent of his friend’s vanity when that friend states that idiots are necessary to him because “The gods ought not to have to bake pots.” This author wrote three libretti for the singer Pauline (-5[1])Viardot [vee-ahr-DOH], with whom he spent several years in Paris living in a ménage à trois. One of this author’s characters immediately begins binding and cleaning an older man’s leg after (*) shooting him in a duel. A novel by this author, which is presented as the diary of the dying aristocrat (10[1])Tchulkaturin [chool-kah-TUR-een], popularized the term “superfluous man.” This author inspired public (10[1])debates over nihilism with a novel in which Arkady (10[1])brings (10[1])home the radical medical student Bazarov [BAH-zur-ohv]. For 10 points, name this Russian author of Fathers and Sons. (10[1]0[2])■END■

ANSWER: Ivan Turgenev [or Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev]
<Literature - European Literature>
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