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An author from this country may have mirrored her own romantic life in a scene in which the narrator is given a desiccated leaf before she gets news that her “first love” drowned in a river. An Orson Welles film titles the dream sequence second chapter of that novel from this country, whose narrator vanishes through a crack in an apartment (-5[1])she shares with Ivan and the title female historian. A “Collateral Campaign” prepares for an (*) Emperor’s 70-year jubilee (10[2])in a novel from this country where Malina is set. In a colossal, unfinished modernist novel from this country, a drifting mathematician named Ulrich describes himself as the title Man Without Qualities. For 10 points, name this country home to Ingeborg Bachmann (10[1])and Robert Musil. ■END■ (10[2]0[5])

ANSWER: Austria [or Österreich] (Malina's second chapter is called The Third Man.)
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, European Literature>
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