Dostoevsky & Ibsen
Who says, "I am first and foremost a human being?"
Nora
To what early 20th century movement do these authors belong?
Modernism
What are these three authors' full names
Samuel Beckett, Charlotte Delbo, Paul Celan
Name one title of one story if In on a Winter's Night a Traveler.
If on a Winter...
Name one creative practice adopted by the surrealists
automatic writing, hypnosis, dream exploration, games, etc.
What is the literary movement generally associated with both Dostoevsky and Ibsen?
Realism
In which languages did Kafka and Pirandello write?
German and Italian
Who are the two main characters in Waiting for Godot?
Didi + Gogo
In what languages were these novels originally written?
French and Italian
How many poems are in Queneau's famous book composed of 10 sonnets (or what is ten to the power of 14)?
one hundred thousand billion (or one hundred million million)
What kind of food does Nora love?
Macaroons
Kafka was a German Jew living in which city
Prague
What are (approximately) the last lines of Waiting for Godot
Well? Shall we go. Yes, Let's go. They do not move.
Name three characteristics of postmodernism
deconstruction, play, death of the author, bricolage, fragmentation, breaking conventions, etc
What is the English meaning of OuLiPo
Workshop of Potential Literature
What is one literary movement that the Underground narrator is set against?
Romanticism
Who is Sisyphus and how did he become a major figure in existentialism?
We must imagine Sisyphus happy.
What is the title of the poem which begins with the words: Black milk of daybreak we drink you.
Death fugue
In what French colony does the little girl in The Lover live?
Vietnam, Saigon, or French Indochina
Novel by Perec without the letter E
A Void
What is the last sound the audience hears in A Doll's House
Door slammed
What is the last event in the play?
Daughter running / laughing
Who are mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Place of May)
Mothers and wives of disappeared in Argentina
What is the name of the main character in The Stranger?
Meursault
Lipogram