Question

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 she shares (-5[1])with Ivan and the title female historian. A “Collateral Campaign” prepares for an (*) Emperor’s 70-year jubilee 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[1])

ANSWER: Austria [or Österreich] (Malina's second chapter is called The Third Man.)
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, European Literature>
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Jonathan SchnipperBrandeisBU62-5
Michael KearneyHarvard AYale A12010
Eren MicheletBUBrandeis1240
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Ethan LinnTuftsYale B12410

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2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024Y475%0%25%122.67
2024 Penn Bowl UK10/26/2024Y580%60%20%74.25
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