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The narrator of a novel by this author recounts how an iron amulet became embedded in the rotting chest of the mad king Charles VI. Norton cofounder M. D. Herter translated a novel by this author, in which a Danish nobleman moves to a squalid flat in Paris to begin a career as a (-5[1])writer. This author wrote “No one can advise or help you… Go into yourself” in a series of correspondences with Franz Xaver (*) Kappus [kah-pus]. An apparent voice in the wind inspired this author to begin a cycle finished eight years later in a creative “storm.”This author of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge [mal-tuh law-rids brih-guh] and Letters to a Young Poet used a stay at a castle near Trieste to write a poem that begins “Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic (10[1])orders?” For 10 points, name this poet of The Duino Elegies. ■END■

ANSWER: Rainer Maria Rilke
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