Question
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]
<HG, European Literature>
Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 8.33 | 67% | 17% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 83% | 17% | 33% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 8.00 | 80% | 0% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 60% | 20% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 15.00 | 90% | 50% | 10% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 17% | 17% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Dartmouth A | Brandeis B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Harvard A | Brown A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| BU | MIT A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Harvard B | Tufts A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Brandeis A | UMass Boston | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |