Question
A poetry collection titled for this character describes “the wine through our eyes we drink” and inspired a piece that pioneered the Sprechstimme (“SHPRECK-shtim-uh”) technique. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this “sad clown” character from the commedia dell’arte tradition. Arnold Schoenberg adapted an Albert Giraud (“zhee-ROH”) cycle titled for this character “moonstruck,” or “lunaire.”
ANSWER: Pierrot (“p’yeh-ROH”) [accept Pierrot lunaire]
[10h] This novel’s narrator quotes the line “the wine through our eyes we drink” and provides an image of the score from Pierrot Lunaire while describing Ungargassenland. The narrator of this novel by Ingeborg Bachmann disappears into a crack in the wall.
ANSWER: Malina
[10m] Theodor Adorno’s explanations of Schoenberg’s twelve-tone technique aided in the conception of this novel, which caused a feud between Schoenberg and its author. This novel follows the composer Adrian Leverkühn.
ANSWER: Doktor Faustus (by Thomas Mann)
<Oxford A, European Literature>
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