Weathered photographs of a floor plan and a commemorative stamp bookend a celebrated nine-page sentence in this novel that describes the horrors of the Theresienstadt (“tuh-RAY-zin-shtott”) concentration camp. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this W. G. Sebald novel about an architectural historian and kindertransport refugee who travels to Prague in order to discover the fates of his birth parents.
ANSWER: Austerlitz
[10h] James Wood’s introduction to Austerlitz compares the novel’s style of nested dialogue to that of this author. In a novel by this author, Roithamer builds his sister a house he calls the “Cone” in a forest.
ANSWER: Thomas Bernhard [or Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard] (The novel is Correction.)
[10e] The first photographs within Austerlitz juxtapose a close-up of owl eyes with the eyes of this philosopher. In Bernhard’s novel Correction, Roithamer’s life parallels that of this author of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
ANSWER: Ludwig Wittgenstein [or Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein]
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