Answer the following about Czech literature featuring composers, for 10 points each.
[10e] This novel states that a “frown, an improbable mane, and a somber voice intoning ‘Es muss sein!’” are all that remains of Beethoven. In this novel, Tomas considers “Es muss sein” when deciding whether to return to Prague.
ANSWER: The Unbearable Lightness of Being [or Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí] (by Milan Kundera)
[10h] Mozart’s journey to Prague is the subject of a collection of “Thirteen Rondels” by this poet. This author of the childlike collection Maminka compared the burning walls of a church to a blush at a first kiss in the poem “St George’s Basilica.”
ANSWER: Jaroslav Seifert
[10m] A novel by this French author draws from Jiří Weil’s Czech novel in which Nazis remove Wagner’s bust from the Prague opera because it had the biggest nose. This author fictionalized Roland Barthes’ death in The Seventh Function of Language.
ANSWER: Laurent Binet (The first novel is HhHH. Jiří Weil’s novel is Mendelssohn is on the Roof.)
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