Gabriel García Márquez began writing fiction after an opening line by this author showed him that people were “allowed to write things like that.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who is described as creating “his own precursors” in one essay. Max Brod published the works of this author, including a novella in which Gregor Samsa awakens after the title transformation.
ANSWER: Franz Kafka
[10m] This author of “Kafka and his Precursors” translated several works by Kafka into Spanish. In a short story by this author, a man dreams into existence a son in the ruins and later learns that he too was dreamed into existence.
ANSWER: Jorge Luis Borges
[10h] In this Kafka story, the mere harsh words of a father compels his son Georg to drown himself in a river.
ANSWER: “The Judgment”
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