World Literature
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A character created by this author believes that people enjoy toothaches because it gives them an excuse to moan. That character created by this author tries to bump into an officer with dignity in the section "Apropos of Wet Snow." In another work by this author, one of the title characters questions his faith after a deceased priest's body begins to smell. One character created by this author declares himself a sick and spiteful man, while another recites the Parable of the Grand Inquisitor to his brother Alexei. Name this Russian author of Notes From the Underground and The Brothers Karamazov.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A character in one novel by this author sees that reading is "agitated" and "heated" except for reading Homer. In that novel by this author, the title character reads Ossian to his one-sided love; afterward committing suicide and buried under linden trees. In a play by this author, a black (*) poodle transforms into Mephistopheles and makes a deal with the title scholar. For 10 points, name this German author of The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust.
The Satanic Verses
A character in this novel dances with Rosa Diamond all night on her birthday and kills himself with a gun hidden in a djinn's (jin's) lamp. In this novel, Ayesha (ai-EE-shuh) convinces a group of followers to walk with her into the Arabian Sea. This novel opens as two characters miraculously survive a (*) plane crash. A 2022 stabbing at the Chautauqua (chuh-TAWK-wuh) Institution was likely inspired by a 1989 Iranian fatwa (FAHT-wah) issued after the publication of this novel. For 10 points, name this novel titled for a series of controversial Quranic passages and written by Salman Rushdie.
The Name of the Rose
A character in this novel is tasked with securing a safe passage for Michael of Cesena. In this novel, it is revealed that Adelmo committed suicide because of the shame he felt at being seduced by Berengar. In this novel, the translator Venantius is found dead in a vat of pig's blood, his fingers and tongue stained black. In this novel, a mirror conceals the entrance to a room called the finis Africanae. At this novel's end, the laughter-hating Jorge of Burgos ingests poisoned pages of the second section of Aristotle's Poetics. Name this mystery featuring Adso of Melk and William of Baskerville, a novel by Umberto Eco.
The House of the Spirits
A character in this novel receives three fingers in the mail, mirroring the three he cut off from an adversary. That character visits the Red Lantern brothel to see the prostitute Transito Soto in this novel. A woman gives birth to the twins Jaime and Nicolas in this novel, which begins with the gift of the dog Barrabas. Bianca begins a relationship with (*) Pedro Tercero Garcia against her father's wishes in this novel. Early in this novel, the green-haired Rosa the Beautiful is poisoned, after which her clairvoyant sister Clara del Valle marries Esteban. For ten points, name this magical realist novel depicting the Trueba family by Isabel Allende.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
A character in this novel sends her daughter to a convent after discovering that she had a baby with a mechanic. That daughter in this novel became mute after her boyfriend Mauricio was shot in the back after being mistaken for a chicken thief. A five year long rain in this novel occurs after the massacre of banana-farm workers. Another character in this novel makes golden fish and is the father of seventeen sons named Aureliano. This novel ends with the parchments of the gypsy Melquiades being translated as a storm destroys Macondo. Name this novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez about the Buendia family.
Bhagavad Gita
A character in this text trembles with "awe and wonder" after seeing a transformed figure display the "radiance of the whole universe in its variety." This text opens by describing ''the field of Truth, the battle-field of life." In the opening section of this text, the wielder of the bow Gandiva laments that he does not want to (*) kill the teachers and family members that stand opposite him in a battle of the Kurukshetra war. For 10 points, name this Sanskrit poem from the Mahabharata about Krishna, the charioteer of Arjuna.
The Necklace
A character in this work is shocked to be addressed familiarly as "Jeanne" by a common woman, before recognizing her as a former schoolmate from the convent. The husband of this story's protagonist gives up his plans for a hunting trip after she expresses resentment at being invited to a ball hosted by the Ministry of Education. After paying four hundred frances for a dress, the main characters work for ten years to repay Madame Forestier for the titel piece of jewelry, which turns out to be an imitation. Name this irionic work of Guy de Maupassant
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
A false confession is extracted from a character in this novel by a prosecution led by Jacques Charmolue. Vagabonds led by Clopin in this novel attempt to stop an experimental play put on by Gringoire, which is then interrupted by the crowning of the main character as the "Pope of Fools." A woman in this novel is pursued by (*) Captain Phoebus, but is later accused by him of an attack committed by Claude Frollo. The title character of this novel swings from a tower to kill Frollo but is unable to prevent the hanging of his gypsy lover Esmeralda. For ten points, name this novel about a bell ringer with deformities named Quasimodo, a work by Victor Hugo.
Les Miserables
A gang of four criminals in this novel are given the name Patron-Minette. Enjolras acts as the leader of the revolutionary group known as the Friends of the ABC in this novel. The protagonist of this novel uses the alias Monsieur (*) Madeleine after he is caught stealing Bishop Myriel's silverware. In this novel, Inspector Javert commits suicide by throwing himself into the Seine River. For 10 points, name this Victor Hugo novel centered on the ex-convict Jean Valjean.
hell
A long poem titled for this place includes the sections "Bad Blood" and "The Impossible." That poem opens by comparing the speaker's life to "one long party where all hearts were open wide." Locations in another poem titled for this place include the city of Dis, a frozen lake, and the Wood of Suicides. In that poem, before entering this place, the narrator encounters a (*) she-wolf, a lion, and a leopard in the woods. Arthur Rimbaud wrote a poem about "A Season in" this place, where Brutus, Cassius, and Judas are condemned to be eternally chewed. For ten points, name this place where Dante sees Satan in Inferno.
Margaret Atwood
A novel by this author features a plan to smuggle information using a microdot hidden on a tattoo. That novel by this author is told primarily through a frame narrative called the Ardua Hall Holograph. This author wrote that novel, The Testaments, as a sequel to a novel in which a Latin phrase meaning (*) "Don't let the bastards grind you down" inspires a protagonist who is forced to play Scrabble with the Commander. For 10 points, name this author who described Offred joining the Mayday movement in The Handmaid's Tale.
Vladimir Nabokov
A novel by this author is framed as a critique of the title work, which opens "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain by the false azure in the windowpane." In that novel by this author, Charles Kinbote becomes convinced he is the king of Zembla after reading a 999-line poem by (*) John Shade. This author wrote a novel in which both a hotel and a play share the name The Enchanted Hunters and the protagonist marries Charlotte in order to gain access to her daughter. In one of this author's novels, the playwright Clare Quilty pursues Humbert Humbert, who is obsessed with the title nymphet. For 10 points, name this Russian-American author of Pale Fire and Lolita.
Cuba
A novelist from this country begins one work with an emcee shouting "Showtime!" at the Tropicana Cabaret. This country, which is the setting of the novel Three Trapped Tigers, is also home to an author who wrote a work narrated by a Hatian slave named Ti Noel. A poetry collection from this country called Versos (*) Sencillos includes "I am a sincere man," and Hemingway set The Old Man and the Sea here. For 10 points, name this country whose patriotic song "Guantanamera" was adapted from the lyrics to a Jose Marti poem.
Chinese
A piece about translating poetry from this language by Eliot Weinberger and Octavio Paz is titled 19 Ways of Looking at a poet who wrote in this language. A poem in this language compares "bright moonlight" to "frost on the ground." The author of that poem began another poem in this language with the line "a cup of wine, under the flowering trees."(*) "Quiet Night Thought" and "Drinking Alone By Moonlight" are written in this language, as are the poems in the collection Three Hundred Tang Poems. Wang Wei and Li Bai wrote in, for ten points, what language, used in the most populous country in the world?
Rabindranath Tagore
A poem by this writer describes a "seashore of endless worlds" on which children meet, and repeats, "they know not how to cast nets." In another poem, this writer describes a place where "the head is held high," "knowledge is free," and "the mind is without fear." This poet's most well-known collection begins, (*) "Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure," and contains an introduction by William Butler Yeats. This man wrote the lyrics to "Jana Gana Mana," the Indian national anthem. For 10 points, name this Bengali Nobel Prize winning poet of Gitanjali.
Les Fleurs de Mal
A poem in this collection talks about how "there are odors succulent as young flesh" because "the pillars of Nature's temple are alive." This collection opens by addressing "ennui" as a "refined monster" who "dreams of scaffolds as he smokes his hookah pipe." The title character of a different poem in this collection is described as a "prince of cloud and sky" whose "giant wings prevent him from walking." The first poem in this collection addresses "my alias, - my twin!", the "hypocrite reader" before other poems such as "Correspondences" and "The Albatross: in the section "Spleen and Ideal." Name this poetry collection by Charles Baudelaire.
Italian
A poetry collection in this language begins with a series of contradictions such as "I burn and yet I freeze." An early humanist writing in this language described the "Ascent of Mount Ventoux" (VOW-too). A poetry collection in this language starts "You who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes," and is addressed to the author's lover, (*) Laura. Many poems in this language use a scheme whose name means "third rhyme." For 10 points, name this language used to write Il Canzoniere (eel KAN-sun-YAIR-ee) by Petrarch.
Jorge Luis Borges
A short story by this author features the question, "In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?" A character in a story by this author describes knowing "the Secret," which is a "British artillery park on the Ancre" (AHN-kur). A story by this author features a hunt by the "Purifiers" through (*) infinite hexagonal rooms. Richard Madden kills sinologist Stephen Albert to signal the Germans in a story by this author. For 10 points, name this author whose Ficciones (FEEK-see-OH-nays) includes "The Library of Babel" and "The Garden of Forking Paths."
Franz Kafka
A story by this author ends with one character threatening natives with a knotted rope to prevent them from boarding a boat. An impresario places a forty day limit on the central activity in another story by this author, which ends with the title character being replaced with a panther. This author wrote about "the Commandant," who dies after an execution device writes "Be Just" on his back. This author of "A Hunger Artist" and "In the Penal Colony" wrote about Grete's brother, who is paralyzed after his father throws an apple at his back. In that story by this author, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into an insect. Name this author of The Metamorphosis.
Japanese
A style of poetry in this language is divided into the upper and lower phrases. The phonetic units of poetry in this language are known as on. Poems in this language were followed by critical commentary in the anthology The Seashell Game. Poetry in this language often uses "season words," and poems in this language separated into independent halves are divided with (*) "cutting words". A poetic form originating from this language is standardized to 17 syllables in English, usually in a 5-7-5 pattern. For 10 points, name this language used by Matsuo Basho which haikus were originally written in.
The House of the Spirits
A woman in this novel gives birth to twins with a hatbox containing a decapitated head beneath her bead, A dog in this novel is later stabbed through the back and dies during an engagement party. After discovering pornographic photos he'd taken of one of their servants, a character in this novel leaves her husband, Count Jean de Setigny. That character in this novel had had an affair with Pedro Tercero Garcia, and is named Blanca. The opening line of this novel explains that the dog Barrabas arrived via the sea. In this novel, Clara has psychic powers, while her sister, Rosa, is born with green hair. Name this Isabel Allende novel centering on the Trueba family.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A work by this author that he described as "a poem on the solitude of power" retells the story of a Caribbean dictator six times. The short story The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World is part of a collection by this author which also includes a story in which a man is kept in a chicken coop. A man falls off a ladder while trying to catch a parrot in one of this author's novels, while in another a man facing a firing squad remembers visiting Melquiades and seeing ice for the first time. This author's collection Leaf Storm is the first appearance of the fictional town of Macondo. Name this author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Aladdin
After being criticized for desiring an egg, this character kills a man impersonating the holy woman Fatima. This man instructs his wife to ask another man for the wine of his country in order to kill a magician that had stolen from him. A man pretending to be related to this character's father, Mustapha the tailor, tricks him into entering a trapped cave, which he escapes using a magic ring. A hall with "four-and-twenty windows" was included in a palace built for this character, whose story did not appear in the original One Thousand and One Nights. For 10 points, identify this character whose wishes are granted by a genie summoned from a "wonderful lamp.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
After leaving a facility where he romances the doctor Vera Gangert, the main character of one novel by this author visits a zoo. This author created a character who owns a spoon inscribed with "Ust-Izhma-1984" and sews his bread ration into his mattress. In addition to creating the character Oleg Kostoglotov in (*) Cancer Ward, this man wrote about a man who has a Baptist roommate named Alyosha and works with Gang 104 workday in a novel about a man accused of being a German spy and wrote a history of Soviet forced labor camps. For ten points, name this Soviet author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
The Song of Roland
After losing faith in Islam, one character in this work changes her name to Juliana after converting to Christianity. The legendary Aude appears in this work and dies of grief after learning that her fiancé has died. The protagonist of this work gives a king an apple that represents the crown of all of earth's kings. While representing one character in this work in a trial by combat, Pinabel is killed by Thierry. After his treachery is discovered, Ganelon is torn apart by horses in this work. The protagonist of this work blows his oliphant horn so hard that his temples burst, and dies at Roncevaux Pass. Name this French medieval epic poem about the title nephew of Charlemagne.
wine
Euripides said that "there is no love" without this substance, while Pliny the Elder wrote that in it, "there is truth." A man travels to Dead Town to try to bring his supplier of this substance back to life in an Amos Tutuola work. James Joyce claimed that the white version of this material "is like electricity," while the red "looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak." Ray Bradbury wrote a novel titled after the "dandelion" variety of this liquid. Name this drink, a jug of which Omar Khayyam included with "a loaf of bread-and Thou."
Gustave Flaubert
Geoffrey Braithwaite tries to determine which of two stuffed birds inspired this author in Julian Barnes's novel titled for [this author]'s Parrot. This author frequently labored over finding "le mot juste," or the exact right word to convey his meaning. In a novel by this author of Salammbo, one character botches an operation on a clubfoot and causes his patient to develop gangrene. The protagonist of a novel by this author lies to her husband about taking piano lessons while carrying on an affair with Leon Dupuis. That character created by this author incurs a debt to the merchant Lheureux she can not pay off, prompting her to commit suicide by ingesting arsenic. Name this French author of Madame Bovary.
handmaids
In a 2019 novel, a person with this title has a daughter named Nicole whose adoptive parents are murdered by secret agents. People with this title are overseen by the former judge Lydia in The Testaments. In another novel, Professor Piexoto listens to cassette tapes made by a former holder of this position, a former wife of Luke is brought to the brothel (*) Jezebel's. That character with this title attempts to escape to Canada with Luke before playing Scrabble with the Commander. For 10 points, Offred holds what title given to fertile women in the state of Gilead in two novels by Margaret Atwood?
The Tin Drum
In a late chapter of this novel, the protagonist bizarrely gives his pen to Bruno and allows him to take over as narrator. The protagonist of this novel falls in love with "world's greatest somnambulist" and is sent by the circus clown Debra on a world tour with Klepp and Scholle. The (*) Rhine River Three performs at the Onion Cellar in this novel, which ends as the protagonist is arrested for Sister Dorothea's murder. Oskar Matzarath decides to stop growing at the age of three in, for 10 points, what novel by Gunter Grass titled for a toy instrument?
Salman Rushdie
In a novel by this author, Wee Willie Winkie's son is switched with the protagonist at his birth by Mary Pereira. Ayesha leads a group of men to drown in the Arabian sea in a novel by this author featuring (*) Saladin Chamcha. Another novel by this author narrated by Saleem Sinai includes a group of characters that were born at the moment of India's independence. For 10 points, name this British-Indian author who wrote Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses.
Kazuo Ishiguro
In a novel by this author, the detective Christopher Banks gets caught up in the Second Sino-Japanese War while searching for his parents in Shanghai. This author of When We Were Orphans created a character that struggles to learn to banter with his employer. That character appears in a novel in which the American (*) Mr. Farraday sanctions the main character's trip to invite the former housekeeper Miss Kenton back to Darlington Hall. For 10 points, the butler Stevens features in what British author's The Remains of the Day?
Portuguese
In a novel in this language, the title character finds solace in the humanitist philosophy of his friend Quincas Borba. In addition to The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, the King of Ward Three is stabbed with a pair of scissors in a work in this language. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ was written in this language, as was a novel featuring a former prostitute who wears dark glasses. That novel in this language opens at a traffic intersection and centers on a doctor's wife who is not stricken by a "white sickness." Blindness was written in, for ten points, what language used by Jose Saramago and many Brazilian authors?
Arabic
In a novel written in this language, the dentist Dr. Booshy steals false teeth from dead bodies. In addition to Midaq Alley, another work in this language sees the slave-girl Morgiana pouring boiling oil on (*) thieves hiding in jars. A group of novels in this language follows three generations of the al-Jawad family in the Cairo Trilogy. For ten points, name this language used by Naguib Mahfouz that was also used to write One Thousand and One Nights.
Alexander Pushkin
In a novella by this author, Pyotr is injured in a duel with Shvabrin before marrying the captain's daughter. One of this author's "Little Tragedies" retells the story of Don Juan, while another inspired Peter Shaffer's Amadeus. Evgenii contemplates his love for Parasha in one work by author, which portrays the flooding of the Neva and the coming to life of a statue of Peter the Great. This author of The Stone Guest wrote a work in which the title character rejects Tatyana before killing Lensky in a duel. Name this Russian author of The Bronze Horseman and Eugene Onegin.
Frederico Garcia Lorca
In a poem by this author, the speaker repeats the refrain "green, how I want you green." The speaker of a poem by this author declares "I will not see it!" about an event that took place "at five in the afternoon". This author of the poem (*) "Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter" also wrote a play in which Leonard and the Groom kill each other after the title event as part of his Rural Trilogy. For 10 points, name this Spanish author of Gypsy Ballads and Blood Wedding.
Guy de Maupassant
In a story by this author, a character becomes haunted by the title creature after waving at a Brazilian boat. This author wrote a story about a Jewish prostitute's rebuke of claims of German military prowess by the title character, whom Rachel kills with a (*) cheese knife before hiding in a bell tower. In another story by this author of "The Horla" and "Mademoiselle Fifi," Madame Forestier loans the title object to Mathilde, who loses it and does not realize that it is fake. For 10 points, name this French author of stories like "The Necklace."
Dublin
In a story set in this city, a character gets a dinner of peas and a ginger beer after listening to his friend calling maids "slaveys." In this city, Corley has his girlfriend steal a gold coin for her employer. In a different story set in this city, a boy murmurs "O love! O love!" the day before talking to Mangan's sister. Later, that character hears "the fall of coins" at the title bazaar in this city. The song "The Lass of Aughrim" reminds a character of her former love Michael Furey in a story set in this city. Name this city, the setting of "Two Gallants," "Araby," and "The Dead" in a namesake story collection by James Joyce.
The Necklace
In a work based off of this story, Arthur Prime and Charlotte search for a gift. A character in this story exclaims, "Ah, the good soup!" while eating dinner with his wife. In this story, that character wishes to go shooting with several friends on the plain of Nanterre, but is unable to after his wife requests a new gown. The protagonist of this story parodied by Henry James in "Paste" dances all night at a Ministry of Education ball, and earlier, she asks Madame Forestier to borrow the title object. After realizing she has lost the title object after exiting a cab, the protagonist of this story works for ten years to replace it. Name this Guy de Maupassant story in which Mathilde Loisel ultimately learns that the title piece of jewelry was fake.
Miguel de Cervantes
In a work by this author, a soldier with syphilis, Campuzano, overhears a conversation between Breganza and Scipio, two dogs. In a novel by this authur, a victim of a beating named Andres is saved by the title character and then beaten twice as hard after that character leaves. In that novel initially attributed to Cide Hamete Benengeli by this author, the title character is defeated by the(*) Knight of the White Moon and acquires a washbasin that he believes is the helmet of Mambrino. For 10 points, what Spanish author wrote about a windmill-duelling knight-errant in Don Quixote?
Don Quixote
In addition to spawning countless works of critical discussion, this fictional character inspired artists in every medium. Notable adaptations included a classic 1869 ballet; the 1965 musical play Man of La Mancha, which first opened on Broadway in 1968; and a 1972 film version directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, and James Coco. Another notable film adaptation was completed in 2018 with the killing of this fictional character. For 10 points which character from Spanish literature had an issue with a windmill?
Franz Kafka
In an essay titled Laughing with [this man], David Foster Wallace cited this author's short story A Little Fable as an example of his "anti-subtle" humor. The protagonist of one of this author's works repeatedly tries to meet with Klamm about getting access to its title location, while Karl Rossman emigrates to New York City to escape a scandal in his novel Amerika. In another novel by this author, the reader never learns the reason for the arrest of Josef K. Name this Czech author of The Castle and The Trial.
The Inferno
In one encounter in this work, the narrator's accent prompts a shade to ask about his ancestry. Shortly after meeting Farinata, the narrator of this work encounters centaurs, including Nessus and Chiron, who guard the river Phlegethon, where figures such as(*) Attila the Hun and Alexander the Great reside. In this work, Medusa nearly appears when the narrator approaches the city of Dis. Judas Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius appear at the end of this work, where they are being eaten by Satan. The narrator of this work passes a gate reading "Abandon hope, all ye who enter" while being led by his guide, Virgil. For 10 points, name this first of three sections of Dante's Divine Comedy.
India
In one novel by an author from this country, John Brown has his friend Janet Hayakawa place an inappropriate advertisement in a newspaper. The author of The Golden Gate is from this country, as is an author who wrote about Rahel and Estha in The God of Small Things. A poem by an author born in this modern-day country includes the line "thou hast made me (*) endless, such is thy pleasure," while another author born here wrote about telepathic powers being received by children at midnight on the eve of its independence. For 10 points, name this native country of Rabindranath Tagore and Salman Rushdie.
Carlos Fuentes Macias
In one novel by this author, a mansion burns down after Norma refuses to sell her jewels and her husband moves to a farm with his blind mistress. In another novel by this author, the protagonist becomes entranced with a green-eyed girl who mirrors her grandmother named Consuelo. This author of Where the Air is Clear and Aura wrote about a character who carries a copy of Don Quixote and shoots a silver peso, gaining the nickname "Indiana General." That character created by this author is loved by Harriet Winslow and represents the author Ambrose Bierce. Name this author of The Old Gringo.
Herman Hesse
In one novel by this author, the protagonist dreams that a songbird in a golden cage dies and he throws it away. This author included Jungian symbolism in a novel featuring Alfons Beck and the organist Pistorius, who become spiritual mentors for Emil Sinclair. In another novel by this author, the title lover of (*) Kamala is told to "listen to the river" by the ferryman Vasudeva and finally achieves enlightenment. For 10 points, name this German language author of Demian and Siddhartha.
Faust
In one novel named for this character, the protagonist deliberately contracts syphilis from Esmerelda and experiences headaches which lead him to write the oratorio Apocalypsis cum Figuris. This character slaps the pope in the ear after turning invisible in a work in which he is taught magic by Valdes and Cornelius. This character resurrected "the (*) face that launched a thousand ships" after seeing Helen of Troy in a namesake work, whose first part begins with a poodle following him home before turning into the demon Mephistopheles. For 10 points, name this character, the subject of plays by Marlowe and Goethe.
Italian
In one novel written in this language, Adso of Melk and William of Baskerville solve a murder mystery at a monastery. That work, The Name of the Rose, was published in this language eight years before the same author's Foucault's Pendulum. A treatise in this language advised the title ruler that it was better to be feared than loved. (*) For 10 points, name this language employed by writers like Umberto Eco and Niccolo Machiavelli.
trains
In one novel, a young boy is given a box of minerals by his friend's father, who then drunkenly kills himself using one of these objects. A panic-stricken crowd gathered around one of these objects causes one character to cry about an "omen of evil" that is later fulfilled after she misinterprets a curt telegram that reads "I can't come before ten o'clock." That character decides to wait for one of these objects to arrive after her husband is advised by Jules Landau, a French (*) clairvoyant, not to grant her a divorce. These vehicles kill the elder Zhivago as well as a woman who meets Kitty and Levin after quarrelling with her lover, Count Vronsky. For 10 points, name these vehicles that run over Anna Karenina.
Umberto Eco
In one novel, this author wrote about an adopted son of Frederick Barbarossa who sets out to find the Kingdom of Prester John. In another novel by this author, Simone Simonini writes the eventual Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The inspector Bernard Gui appears in another novel by this author of (*) Baudolino and The Prague Cemetery, in which the second book of Aristotle's Poetics is found to have poisoned pages by William of Baskerville and Adso of Melk. For 10 points, name this Italian author of The Name of the Rose.
Jose Saramago
In one of this author's works, the Maphia take people across the borders of a country to kill them; that work sees death fall in love with a cellist to whom she sends many violet letters. In a sequel to this author's most famous work, many voters submit blank ballots, and in one of this author's more controversial novels, the title character is incredibly adept at catching fish, and God chooses him to spread a (*) new religion. This author's most famous work opens at a stoplight, and the Doctor's Wife is one of few not afflicted by the title condition. For ten points, identify this Portuguese author of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Blindness.
Rabindranath Tagore
In one poem by this author, the speaker thrice encounters a woman carrying a lamp and is dismayed each time when she spends its light "uselessly." In a novel by this author, Bimala is torn between her husband Nikhil and the radical Sandip, a proponent of the Swadeshi movement. This author of The Home and the World also wrote a poetry collection that imagines a place(*) ''where the mind is without fear" and states, "Into that heaven of freedom...let my country awake," referring to his native India. This man won the 1913 Nobel Prize for that collection of "Song Offerings," which opens, "Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure." For 10 points, name this Bengali author of Gitanjali.
Li Bai
In one poem by this man, "a chain of peaks less than a foot away from Heaven" are used to describe traveling down a road that is as "difficult as climbing to the blue sky." In another poem, this man wonders if it's "frost on the ground" after seeing a "pool of light" before his bed. This poet of (*) "Quiet Night Thought" describes being able to meet his friends again "at last on the Cloudy River of the sky" in one poem. This author says that he and his cup make "three men" with the moon in a poem where he drinks alone because no friend is near. For 10 points, name this Chinese poet of "Drinking Alone by Moonlight."
Li Bai
In one poem by this poet, the speaker states how at "this hour, this night, my feelings go hard." In another poem by this poet, the speaker describes moonlight before his bed as "frost on the ground". In that poem by this poet, the speaker lifts his head to look at the (*) moon and lowers it to think of his homeland. This poet had several works translated by Ezra Pound and was a contemporary of Du Fu. For 10 points, name this Tang Dynasty poet of "Quiet Night Thoughts".
Latin
In one poem, an author who wrote in this language threatens to "stuff the faces" of those who "read about my 'many kisses' and doubt I'm fully a man." A poem in this language asks a slender boy named Pyrrha, "for whom did you tie up your hair?" In this language, an author declares that "I hate and I love" and begs his girlfriend to "give me a thousand (*) kisses, then another hundred." A poet who wrote in this language coined phrases including "[i]t is sweet and fitting to die for one's country" and "seize the day" in his namesake odes. For 10 points, name this language used by Roman poets Catullus and Horace, who coined the phrase "carpe diem."
William Butler Yeats
In one poem, this author cautions "tread softly because you tread on my dreams." The speaker asks "how can we know the dancer from the dance?" in this author's "Among School Children." The speaker of one poem by this author sees "a vast image out of (*) Spiritus Mundi." The speaker of that poem by this author claims "things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" and describes a creature that "slouches towards Bethlehem." For 10 points, name this Irish poet of "The Second Coming."
Matsuo Basho
In one poem, this author discusses "a horse peeing near my pillow". Before his death, this poet wrote about his "dream running around" in "a field covered with dried grass". In another poem, this poet claims "even a thatched hat may change with a new owner into a doll's house". The travels of this poet and a friend are discussed in (*) Sora's Diary. A collection created by this poet named after a children's game compares poems by Sanboku and Dasoku, and is called The Seashell Game. Another poem by this author describes the "splash of water" after an ancient pond is disturbed by a frog. For 10 points, name this Japanese poet of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, known as the "master of the haiku".
Leo Tolstoy
In one story by this author, Pahom is told that he can have all the land he can walk around in one day, but dies just as he finishes and is buried in a six-foot grave. In a novella by this author, a high-court judge dies after falling while hanging curtains. This author of "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" began a novel with the quote "all happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." The title character of a novel by this author sees a railway worker die with Count Vronsky and later flings herself in front of a train. Name this Russian author of The Death of Ivan Illyich and Anna Karenina.
Nikolai Gogol
In one story by this author, Petro picks up a fern on Kupala night and finds a treasure that requires him to decapitate the child Ivas to open. That work, "St John's Eve," is found in this author's collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka. In a play by this author, residents of a small town offer bribes to Khlestakov after he is mistaken for a (*) government official. In a short story by this author, Akaky Akakievich haunts St. Petersburg after the title piece of clothing is stolen. For 10 points, name this author of The Inspector General and "The Overcoat."
Herman Hesse
In one work by this author, Leo disappears from a journey in which H.H. and other members of "The League'' attempt to find an "ultimate truth." That work, Journey to the East, also contains the character Goldmund, who in a different work plans to become an artist and leaves behind his friend (*) Narcissus. The ferryman Vasudeva tells the title character to "listen to the river" in one work by this author of The Glass Bead Game, while in another Hermine is killed in the Magic Theatre by Harry Haller. For 10 points, name this author of Steppenwolf and Siddhartha.
Argentina
In one work from this country, Beatriz's cousin recites a fictional poem called "The Earth." Another work from this country features cellmates Molina and Valentin who discuss film plots and form an intimate relationship. Other works from this country where Kiss of the Spider Woman is set include a story set in the poet Carlos Danieri's cellar, which houses a single (*) point in space that contains all other points. An author from this country wrote about an infinite series of hexagonal rooms that contain every possible book in "The Library of Babel" as well as "The Aleph." For ten points, name this home country of Manuel Puig and Jorge Luis Borges.
Dante
In one work, this character meets "Mary's faithful Bernard" when he expects to see his love interest. Towards the end of that work, this character passes through the Empyrean and discovers that the universe is bound by love. Earlier in his journey, this character travels through the city of Dis, encounters two lovers who are being swept around by the wind, (*) Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini, and watches the heads of Judas, Brutus, and Cassius being eaten. This author is guided primarily by Virgil and his love, Beatrice. This author is the main character of a three-part poem in which he journeys through the Christian afterlife. For 10 points, name this protagonist and author of The Divine Comedy.
Dante
In one work, this character meets "Mary's faithful Bernard" when he expects to see his love interest. Towards the end of that work, this character passes through the Empyrean and discovers that the universe is bound by love. Earlier in his journey, this character travels through the city of Dis, encounters two lovers who are being swept around by the wind, Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini, and watches the heads of Judas, Brutus, and Cassius being eaten. This author is guided primarily by Virgil and his love, Beatrice. This author is the main character of a three-part poem in which he journeys through the Christian afterlife. Name this protagonist and author of The Divine Comedy.
The Count of Monte Cristo
In this novel, a character found with a crown and the initials HN kills the sister-in-law of the smuggler who unearthed him. One character who loses his fortune to manipulation of the bond market in this novel is kidnapped by Luigi Vampa while trying to flee to Italy. This novel's title character uses pseudonyms such as Lord Wilmore and Sinbad the Sailor. The lover of this novel's protagonist, Mercedes, abandons Fernand Mondego with her son Albert. After escaping from the Chateau d'If, this man finds a treasure whose location was told to him by the Abbe Faria. Name this Alexandre Dumas novel where Edmond Dantes seeks revenge for his false imprisonment.
Candide
In this novel, one woman threatens to throw herself into the sea if anybody had a more miserable life than her. The daughter of the Princess of Palestrina tries to avoid boredom at the end of this novel by joining several people in running a farm. The servant Cacambo journeys with the title character to Eldorado where he receives one hundred red sheep and jewels. Cunegonde has her freedom bought shortly after the title character encounters the optimist Dr, Pangloss while in Constantinople. Name this satirical novel by Voltaire.
Midnight's Children
In this novel, the ghost of Communist revolutionary Joseph D'Costa inspires one character to confess to a crime. In this novel, Wee Willie Winkie plays the accordion for William Methwold. One character in this novel falls in love with a landowner's daughter after examining her through a perforated sheet. (*) Mary Pereira switches the protagonist of this novel with Shiva-of-the Knees at birth. The protagonist of this novel falls in love with Parvati-the-Witch and gains telepathic powers from his large, constantly runny nose. For 10 points, Saleem Sinai is born at the exact moment India gains independence in what novel by Salman Rushdie?
Gulliver's Travels
In this novel, the narrator compares his skills to those of the pirate William Dampier. After calling up the ghosts of several historical figures, this novel's title character learns that Alexander the Great died from excessive drinking. In this novel, members of the Grand Academy of Lagado attempt to soften marble and extract sunbeams from (*) cucumbers. In the first section of this novel, the narrator documents a conflict between the Little-Endians and the Big-Endians over how to crack an egg correctly in Lilliput. For ten points, name this satirical novel by Jonathan Swift in which the title character visits several fantastical lands.
Mahabharata
In this work, a king shoots an arrow that hits a sage disguised as a deer, who curses him to death if he commits a sexual act. That king was named for his pale appearance and has a brother who was born blind. In this work, a group of brothers are forced to go into exile for 12 years after losing a dice game; that game was organized by (*) Shakuni. At the end of this work, the aforementioned brothers each fall one by one while trekking up the Himalayas, and their sins are narrated by Yudhishthira. For ten points, name this Sanskrit epic that recounts the Kurukshetra war between the Pandavas and Kauravas.
Egypt
It's not France, but a novel primarily set in this country centers on the Irishman Darley's romance with the title Jewish woman, Justine. That novel is the first part of a quartet named for a city in this country written by Lawrence Durrell. In a novel set in this country, Amina shatters her collarbone when she is hit by a car. This country is the setting for a (*) trilogy that consists of the novels Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street that features the family of the philandering patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad. For ten points, name this country, which is the setting of the Alexandria Quartet and Naguib Mahfouz's-Cairo Trilogy.
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
It's not Poe, but a Stéphane Mallarmé poem about this other poet's tomb describes it as a "buried temple." This author repeats "Satan, have pity on my long despair!" in one poem. This poet compares their appearance to a "prince of cloud and sky" in one poem which calls the title "winged voyager... weak and gauche." The poems "The Litanies of Satan" and (*) "The Albatross" can be found in one collection by this author, which is divided into sections like "Revolt" and "Spleen and Ideal." That collection by this poet is addressed to the "hypocrite reader — my likeness — my brother!" For 10 points, Les Fleurs du Mal is a collection by what French symbolist poet?
Rubaiyat
Jorge Luis Borges characterized this collection as a collaboration between two "momentary faces of god" in an essay titled for The Enigma of [this work's translator]. The speaker of this collection muses that "one thing is certain, and the rest is lies/ the flower that once has blown forever dies" and later asks "who is the Potter, pray, and who the pot?" The command (*) "Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight/ the Stars" opens this collection, which also states "the moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on". "A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou" are described in Edward FitzGerald's translation of, for 10 points, what series of quatrains by Omar Khayyam?
The Little Prince
Many events in this story are paralleled in its author's memoir Wind, Sand and Stars. A businessman in this story tries to "own" every star because no one has claimed them before. A fox who asks to be tamed in this story tells its title character that "[o]ne sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye." This story's narrator sees a (*) boa constrictor swallowing an elephant where others see a hat. This work's narrator meets its title character after his plane crashes in the Sahara. For 10 points, name this novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupery featuring a small boy who lives on Asteroid B-612.
Middlemarch
Mr. Wrench is fired as one family's doctor in this novel after failing to recognize typhoid fever, while Naumann asks one man in it to pose as Thomas Aquinas in order to paint that man's wife. A banker is blackmailed by John Raffles in this novel, which features a clergyman's efforts to complete The (*) Key to All Mythologies. Dr. Lydgate treats Fred Vincy in this work, in which the protagonist must choose between marrying Will Ladislaw or receiving her inheritance. For 10 points, name this George Eliot work subtitled A Study of Provincial Life.
Australia
One author from this country wrote about Sybylla Melvyn, who after rejecting Harold Beecham's marriage proposal, believes that her "brilliant career" is unattainable. Mr. Judd survives an expedition led by a man who writes a letter proposing to Laura Trevelyan in one novel set in this country, (*) Voss. Two characters make a bet about transporting a glass church across this country in Oscar and Lucinda, while an author from here wrote about a German entrepreneur who attempts to save Jews during the Holocaust in Schindler's Ark. For 10 points, name this country, which is home to Patrick White, Peter Carey, and Thomas Keneally.
German
One author who wrote in this language asked "Must the morning always return?" in his poem "Longing for Death" and used a blue flower to symbolize Romanticism. This native language of Novalis was used to write one poem pondering "why am I so sad at heart" and centers on a monster who is "combing her golding hair" and "holds a golden comb". In addition to(*) "Die Lorelei", one poem written in this language describes a "daughter of Elysium" and inspired Beethoven's 9th symphony. For 10 points, name this language of Heinrich Heine, also used to write "Ode to Joy" by Frederich Schiller.
Cry, the Beloved Country
One chapter of this novel praises the oration of Father Beresford and Ernest Oppenheimer while alternating between opposing views on gold mines. One character in this novel discusses politics with John Harrison shortly before learning his son was an admirer of Abraham Lincoln. At the beginning of this novel, one character receives a letter about his prostitute sister (*) Gertrude's illness. The protagonist of this novel is assisted by Mrs. Lithebe and Theophilus Msimangu before learning that his son is sentenced to be hanged for the murder of Arthur Jarvis. For 10 points, name this novel in which Stephen Kumalo searches for his son Absalom in Johannesburg, written by Alan Paton.
The Handmaid's Tale
One character in this novel quotes the motto "Pen is envy" to discourage other characters from writing. This novel's protagonist finds the phrase "don't let the bastards grind you down" scratched into a dresser. Men who are "salvaged" in this novel are hung from the Wall, and can be killed in Particicutions. At the urging of (*) Serena Joy, this novel's protagonist has an affair with the chauffeur Nick. This novel's protagonist secretly plays a game of Scrabble with the Commander. For 10 points, name this dystopian novel set in the Republic of Gilead in which Offred holds the title position of servitude, written by Margaret Atwood.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
One character in this novel wears a "shabby green coat" and is the wildflower-searching Heinrich, who was fired from his job after loving this novel's central female character. This novel's protagonist is snubbed by the aristocratic members of society when he visits his employer, Count C, on the same day they do. One character in this novel recites Ossian on his final visit to his love, and after leaving Wahlheim, its protagonist befriends(*) Fraulein von B. This novel's protagonist ultimately shoots himself after Albert ends up with Lotte, inspiring numerous copycat suicides. For ten points, identify this epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Aenid
One character in this work kills seven deer with the bow of Achates, after which he and Achates become invisible in a cloud of mist. The presence of thirty piglets under an oak tree fulfills one prophecy told to this work's main character, who was guided through the underworld by the Cumeaen Sybil. After seeing one character in this work wearing the belt of Pallas, its title character kills Turnus. The phrase "I sing of arms and the man" opens this poem, in which its namesake loses his wife Creusa before seeing Dido kill herself. Name this Virgil epic about the founding of Rome.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
One character in this work sends his servant Victor on meaningless errands to prevent him from spying, and later blackmails a scientist in order to dispose of a body. This novel's protagonist is called "Prince Charming" by a character who commits suicide after a subpar performance in (*) Romeo and Juliet. The death of Sybil Vane leads to Lord Henry Wotton further corrupting this novel's protagonist, who dies after stabbing an artwork made by Basil Hallward. For 10 points, name this work about a portrait which ages instead of its owner, the only novel by Oscar Wilde.
Crime and Punishment
One character in this work wonders if the afterlife consists of a bathhouse full of spiders. The protagonist of this work claims that certain people, such as Napoleon, are extraordinary and can transgress moral laws. That man also has a troubling dream in which several drunkards beat a horse to death. The main character of this work gives money to support the family of (*) Marmeladov after he is killed in a carriage accident. In this work, Sonya urges the main character to admit to a certain action. For ten points, name this novel in which Raskolnikov kills a pawnbroker and her sister, a book by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Albert Camus
One of this author's protagonists compares the concentric circles of Amsterdam to the levels of hell and visits the Mexico City bar where he acquires the Just Judges panel of the Ghent Altarpiece. In addition to writing about the lawyer Clamence, who doesn't prevent a woman's suicide in The (*) Fall, this author wrote a novel in which thousands of rats die in the streets of Oran while Dr. Bernard Rieux investigates The Plague. In another of this author's novels, the protagonist is friends with Raymond Sintes, and shoots an Arab after feeling no emotion at his mother's death. For ten points, identify this absurdist French author who wrote about Meursault in The Stranger.
Pablo Nerudo
One poem by this author describes love as both "a war of lightning" and "two bodies ruined by a single sweetness." This author praises a "heavenly globe, platinum goblet" for its ability to "make us cry without hurting us" in his "Ode to the Onion." In one poem, this author wrote "She loved me, sometimes I loved her too" and "Love is so short, forgetting is so long." That poem is part of a collection whose final poem repeats the lines "it is the hour of departure" and "in you everything sank!" The penultimate poem in that collection begins "Tonight I can write the saddest lines." Name this Chilean poet of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
Saki
One story by this author sees the governess Miss Hope tell children to act out the Rape of the Sabine Women to understand history. This author included "The Schartz-Metterklume Method" in his collection Beasts and Superbeasts, which features a story which ends with the line "romance at short notice was her specialty." This author, whose name comes from the cupbearer from the Rubaiyat, also wrote a story in which Conradin worships a polecat-ferret. This author's most famous story sees Vera scare Framton Nuttel by telling him a story about the title structure. Name this British author of "Sredni Vashtar" and "The Open Window."
Petrarch
The addressee of one poem by this author "let her golden hair scatter in the breeze," which in its original language may be a pun on that addressee's name. This poet claimed to be the first person since ancient times to climb a mountain for the view in "The Ascent of Mont Ventoux." A 366-poem collection by this author is divided into sections called (*)"In Life" and "In Death." This poet began that collection by addressing the reader with the line "you who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes." For 10 points, name this Italian poet whose collection Il Canzoniere contains many poems addressed to a woman named Laura.
The Diary of Anne Frank
The main character of this work dislikes sharing a room with Mr. Dussel, a dentist. That character misses her own cat but befriends Mouschi and his owner Peter. In this work, the main character's family and the van Daans (*) hide from in the "secret annex." For 10 points, name this nonfiction book about Jewish families hiding in an attic from the Nazis, a book written by a fourteen year-old girl.
Greek
The narrator of a poem in this language tells the addressee to "stop at Phoenician trading stations" to buy "mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony." Another poem in this language begins, "What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?" and laments of the title foreigners, "These people were a kind of solution." This language of "Waiting for the Barbarians" was also used to write an epic 33,333-line poem that is "A Modern Sequel" to an ancient epic in this language that follows the exploits of a certain hero as he returns home to Ithaka. Name this native language of Konstantine Cavafy and Nikos Kantzanzakis, who wrote a modern version of the Odyssey.
Anna Karenina
The only named chapter in this novel describes Nikolai's tuberculosis and is titled "Death." Two characters in this novel get engaged after playing a game based on giving the first letters of words. The aristocratic Stiva cheats on his wife (*) Dolly near the start of this novel, leading to the title character's arrival. This novel begins with a remark about how "all happy families are alike" and ends when the title character jumps in front of a train after an affair with Count Vronsky. For 10 points, name this novel by Leo Tolstoy.
India
The protagonist of a novel set in this country tries to escape the "Rooster Coop" of this country after being framed for running over a child. That novel set in this country follows a taxi driver who writes letters to Wen Jiabao and is called The White Tiger. In another novel set in this country, the protagonist loses his memory after being hit in the head with a silver spittoon and has a large nose that gives him telepathic powers. The protagonist of that novel was born on the night of this country's independence from Britain and is named Saleem term-96Sinai. Name this Asian country, the birthplace of Aravind Adiga and the author of Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
The protagonist of a story by this author hangs himself at its end after his daughter and a monkey burn to death in a carriage. Another story by this author sees a character named Goi obsess over the title "Yam Gruel." This author wrote a story about incompatible testimonies provided by characters including a woodcutter and a Buddhist priest. A woman in a story by this author by this author has her robe stolen from her after she steals the hair of corpses. In a story by this author, the bandit Tajomaru is implicated in the murder of the samurai Takehiro. Name this Japanese author of "Rashomon" and "In a Grove."
Jorge Luis Borges
The protagonist of a story by this author opens wp a copy of The Thousand and One Nights before being challenged to a knife fight at its end. That story by this author follows Juan Dahlmann and is titled "The South." A character in a story by this author visits a house after Beatriz Viterbo dies. The protagonist of a story by this author visits the house of Carlos Daneri which contains the title point named after the first letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. A group known as "The Purifiers" searches for books of the Crimson Hexagon in the title location of infinite hexagonal rooms in a story by this author. Name this blind Argentinian author of "The Aleph" and "The Library of Babel."
Yuko Mishima
The protagonist of one novel by this author works in a factory building fighter planes after meeting Kusano at the beginning of World War II. A young man trained in kendo is one of four successive characters believed by Shigekuni Honda to be the reincarnation of a childhood friend. That series of novels by this author includes Runaway Horses and Spring Snow. Mizoguchi burns the titel structure of another novel by this man, who committed seppuku after a failed coup. Name this Japanese author of The Sea of Fertility tetralogy and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The speaker of a poem by this author is led by an "Elder Lament" to the "fountain of joy" before climbing "the mountains of primeval grief." That poem by this author ends by stating how "we, who think of ascending joy, would feel the emotion, that almost dismays us, when a joyful thing falls." Stephen Mitchell translated a poem by this author that describes a "mighty will that stands paralyzed" of an animal that (*) "paces in cramped circles". He imagines the"legendary head / with eyes like ripening fruit" of a statue in a poem that declares "You must change your life." This author of "The Panther" opened a collection by asking "Who if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?" For 10 points, name this German poet of the Duino Elegies.
Octavio Paz
The speaker of a prose piece by this author fills the water tank on a train with salt water in order to take the title object home. This author wrote a biography of Sor Juana titled The Traps of Faith, and claimed that "our whole way of life is a mask" in the second chapter of one work. The line "willow of crystal, a poplar of water" opens a (*) 584-line poem by this author inspired by the Aztec calendar. This author argued that people of his culture don't want to be "either an Indian or a Spaniard" in a work containing "The Sons of La Malinche" and "The Day of the Dead." For 10 points, name this Mexican author of "Sunstone" and The Labyrinth of Solitude.
Rainer Maria Rilke
This author advised Franz Kappus to "go into yourself'' in a series of correspondences later published as Letters to a Young Poet. In one poem, this man described the title creature's strides as a "ritual dance around a center." In another poem by this author of "The Panther," the title object is compared to "a wild beast's fur." That poem, which ends "you must change your life," is (*) "Archaic Torso of Apollo." While staying in a castle owned by Princess Thum und Taxis, this man wrote a collection that begins "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?" For ten points, name this German poet of Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies.
William Butler Yeats
This author described a location where "peace comes dropping slow" in a poem that mentions "nine bean rows" in a place where "midnight's all a glimmer" and the speaker "will arise and go now." This author invoked a childhood memory of a vacation spot in County Sligo in "The (*) Lake Isle of Innisfree." A poem by this author says "The falcon cannot hear the falconer" and ends by warning of a "rough beast" that "Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born." For 10 points, name this Irish poet who wrote "The Second Coming."
Honore de Balzac
This author describes Josephine's attempts to figure out what Balthazar Claes is experimenting on in his laboratory in The Quest of the Absolute. Another work by this author contrasts David Sechard's success at his printing press with a mediocre poet named Lucien Chardon. That work, Lost Illusions, is in a collection that also includes The(*) Wild Ass's Skin and features the recurring character Eugene de Rastignac. For 10 points, name this French author of The Human Comedy.
Octavio Paz
This author describes a woman who is "lake-water in April as she lies" in one of his poems. A different work by this poet ends by describing a tree that is "firmly rooted and that dances, turning course of a river that goes curving." This poet describes the title figure contemplating the garden of Ravana in his The Monkey Grammarian, which was inspired by Hanuman. A poem by this author mentions a "willow of crystal" and a "poplar of water" in a work whose 584 lines were inspired by the Aztec Calander. Another essay by this author called "The Day of the Dead" analyzes the development of Mexican culture. Name this author of The Labyrinth of Solitude and "Sunstone."
Chinua Achebe
This author receives a letter mentioning the British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper from high school students in Yonkers, New York in one essay. In a novel by this author, John Goodcountry converts a village to Christianity after a priest's refusal to call the harvest results in a famine. This author of Arrow of God called Joseph Conrad a "thoroughgoing racist" in "An Image of Africa." The protagonist of his most well-known novel participates in the ritual killing of his son Ikemefuna. Name this Nigerian novelist who wrote about Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart.
Chinua Achebe
This author was called a "prophet" and targeted by the military for seeming to foretell a real-life coup in his novel A Man of the People. This author also wrote about the tyrannical Sam's attempt to become President-for-Life of Kangan in Anthills of the Savannah. In another novel by this author, the law student Obi goes against custom to marry the (*) osu Clara and is arrested for taking bribes. In one of this author's novels, the protagonist beats his wife during the Week of Peace and accidentally shoots Ezeudu's son at a funeral, leading to his exile from Umofia. For 10 points, name this Nigerian author who wrote about the Okonkwo family in No Longer at Ease and Things Fall Apart.
Isabel Allende
This author wrote a novel in which the dog Barrabás' voice is only heard after the death of the green-haired Rosa the Beautiful. After not speaking for nine years, the telekinetic prophet Clara del Valle marries Esteban in a novel by this author, which follows the (*) Trueba family. In another novel, this author created the orphaned storyteller Eva Luna. For 10 points, name this Chilean author of The House of the Spirits.
Kenzaburo Oe
This author wrote about the effects William Blake's poetry had on his writing in the semi autobiographical work Rouse up O Young Men of the New Age. In a different work by this writer, a character who disagrees with his brother about whether their great-great uncle had led a rebellion teaches young men to play soccer and leads a revolt against a Korean known as (*) "The Emperor." In another work, this man wrote about a character who dreams of escaping to Africa whose child, Bird, was born with a brain hernia. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Silent Cry and A Personal Matter.
Yukio Mishima
This author wrote about their exercise regimen in the essay Sun and Steel. One character created by this author has a distinct pattern of moles on his back, leading other characters to believe that he has been reincarnated as the kendoist Isao. That character, Kiyoaki, is the protagonist of Spring Snow, the first novel in his (*) Sea of Fertility tetralogy. In one novel by this author, Father Dosen reads koans from The Gateless Gate to his disciples. In that novel by this man, Mizoguchi smokes a cigarette after burning down the title Buddhist temple. For ten points, name this Japanese author of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.
Sancho Panza
This character exorcises his personal demons by telling stories to another man in a short parable by Franz Kafka. This character is interrupted while listing individual goats in a story, and tells the duchess that while he can sign his name, he must have others write letters to his wife Teresa. Sayings of his such as "never put your thumbs between your wisdom teeth" lead this character's master to suggest that such proverbs "will lead you to the gallows one day." This squire asks "what giants?" when his knight sets off to attack some windmills. Name this traveling companion of Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote.
Sun Wukong
This character gains "fiery eyes" after cooking in a crucible for 49 days and is thus able to see the White Bone Demon. By using the "True Words to Calm the Mind," this character's companion is able to tighten a headband that he wears, incapacitating him. This character consumes Pills of Longevity and the(*) Peaches of Immortality in defiance of the Jade Emperor. After being trapped under a mountain, the monk Tripitaka releases, for 10 points, what "Monkey King" featured in the Chinese novel Journey to the West?
Gregor Samsa
This character is given a bowl of sweetened milk and pieces of bread, but dislikes the taste. This character attempts to hide a picture of a lady dressed in fur while his furniture is being taken. After being seen by his father, this character is wounded after having (*) apples thrown at his back. This character's sister, Grete, is the only one who will go to his room alone after his title transformation. For 10 points, name this protagonist of Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis."
Wole Soyinka
This man edited Transition Magazine while in a self-imposed exile after being released from prison, where he had written a memoir called The Man Died. After requesting a prize yam, a head is presented to the protagonist of this author's Kongi's Harvest. Sidi chooses to marry the chief Baroka instead of the teacher Lukunle in one play by this man, while in another, Simon Pilkings prevents a ritual suicide. Name this Nigerian author of "The Lion and the Jewel" and "Death and the King's Horseman."
Mario Vargas Llosa
This man wrote a fictional biography of Flora Tristan and her grandson Paul Gauguin in The Way to Paradise. In another of this author's works, Urania Cabral is raped by a Dominican dictator, and he told of the Counselor's fortification of Canudos in The War of the End of the World. Porfirio Cava steals a chemistry exam in his novel set at the Leoncio Prado(*) Military Academy, and Pedro Camacho writes radio soap operas in another work which also includes the marriage of Varguitas to the first title character. For ten points, identify this Peruvian Nobel Laureate, author of The Time of the Hero and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.
Lolita
This novel's foreword includes the death of Mrs. Schiller and was written by John Ray Jr. The protagonist of this novel shoots the playwright of The Enchanted Hunters and pursues the title character due to the death of his childhood love Annabel Leigh. (*) Charlotte is run over by a car after realizing her husband's infatuation with her daughter, Dolores Haze. For 10 points, name this novel about Humbert Humbert's obsession with the title nymphet, by Vladimir Nabokov.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
This novel's protagonist goes to an opium den after leaving Lady Narhorough's party early. The central object of this novel is observed to be "sweating with blood" after the protagonist smells the nitric acid used by chemist Alan Campbell to dispose of a body. This novel's protagonist is responsible for the suicide of actress (*) Sibyl Vane, and led down the road of debauchery by a "little yellow book" given to him by Henry Wotton. For ten points, identify this novel in which a portrait painted by Basil Hallward ages instead of the title character, a work by Oscar Wilde.
Petrarch
This poet described the source of ''the clearest knowledge / of how the world's delight is a brief dream" in a poem that mentions "those sighs on which I fed my heart." In his Epistolae familiares, this poet described an ascent of Mont Ventoux, and he retold the conquest of Carthage from the perspective of (*) Scipio Africanus in his poem Africa. A collection by this poet begins "You who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes." For 10 points, name this poet who addressed many sonnets to Laura in his Il Canzoniere.
Horace
This poet recommended that parricide be punished by the consumption of garlic rather than of hemlock in one of his Epodes. In a poem sometimes named for Cleopatra, this author wrote that "now is the time to drink." This author included a poem boasting that he had "built a monument more lasting than bronze" in his most famous collection. In one work, this author praised Homer for beginning his narration (*) in medias res rather than ab ovo, and Wilfred Owen used a line from one of this author's works for the title of his poem, "Dulce et decorum est." For ten points, name this Roman author of Odes and the Ars Poetica, who coined thephrase "carpe diem."
Pablo Nerudo
This poet wrote about burying a dog "next to a rusted old machine" later saying "some day I'll join him right there". This poet also repeats "Ah you who are silent!" while telling the title insect "you buzz in my soul, drunk with honey" in "The White Bee". This poet praised a "torpedo from the ocean" in his "Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market" as well as socks and artichokes in his Elemental Odes. This poet states, "it is the hour of departure" before telling the addressee "In you everything sank!". Name this Chilean poet of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
Rubaiyat
This poetry cycle notes that "Earth could not answer" when "There was- and then no more of THEE and ME." An extended metaphor in this collection asks "Who is the Potter, pray, and who the pot?" A Eugene O'Neill comedy is named after a line from these poems, "Ah Wilderness!" This collection notes "The Moving (*) Finger writes: and, having writ, / Moves on," and asks for "A Jug of Wine, a loaf of Bread- and Thou." For 10 points, name this set of Persian-language quatrains translated by Edward Fitzgerald and attributed to Omar Khayyam (oh-MAR ee-hai-AHM).
1001 Nights/Arabian Nights
This work features a story in which a fisherman finds a world without money. Another character in this work mistakes a fish for a large island. Another story from this collection concerns a character who sees forty (*) thieves going into a cave of treasures. For 10 points, name this work that features characters such as Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba, a collection of folk tales narrated by Scheherezade.
The Decameron
This work titles a namesake 2020 "Project" run by the New York Times that includes stories by authors such as David Mitchell and Margaret Atwood. One story in this collection, told by Panfilo, has its origins in a fabliau by Jean Bodel; in that story from this collection, the wife of an(*) innkeeper ends up in bed with one of their houseguests after a cradle was moved from the foot of her own bed. Characters in this collection are variably assigned the roles of "king" or"queen" to decide a theme for the day's stories; the only character exempt from that theme is Dioneo. For 10 points, name this story collection told by ten Florentines fleeing the plague, written by Giovanni Boccaccio.
Gulliver's Travels
Though this novel was written about 150 years before astronomers discovered the moons of Mars, it mentions those bodies in a passage about people who must be constantly hit with bags of stones to keep focus. This novel describes an enlightened race that have no word for lying, the (*) Houyhnhnms (HWIN-imz). In this book, a debate about the proper way to crack an egg leads to a divide between the Big-Endians and Little-Endians. This novel's main character is viewed as a giant by the Lilliputians (lil-ip-OO-shunz). For 10 points, name this novel by Jonathan Swift.
The Metamorphosis
Three bearded boarders threaten lawsuits after being scared off by the main character of this work. That protagonist has a sister named Greta who wants to study violin at the conservatory, and he dies after his father throws an apple at him that becomes stuck in his back. (*) For 10 points, name this work in which Gregor Samsa wakes up one day to find that he has been changed into a bug, a work by Franz Kafka.
Russian
Translating iambic pentameter from this language is described in the book Notes on Prosody. A poem in this language contains sections such as "Instead of a Preface" and "Crucifixion" and describes the author's son's 17 month imprisonment; that poem is "Requiem." The title character delivers a "Sermon" after receiving a love letter. In that work in this language, which uses sonnets with alternating (*) feminine and masculine rhymes, the title "superfluous man" shoots his friend Lensky in a duel at Tatyana's name day party. For ten points, name this Slavic language in which Alexander Pushkin wrote Eugene Onegin.