Question
This author was dubbed “the conscience of the nation” as part of Germany’s “rubble literature” movement. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author. Robert Faehmel destroys St. Anthony’s Abbey to punish those who collaborated with “the Host of the Beast” in this author’s 1959 novel Billiards at Half-Past Nine.
ANSWER: Heinrich Böll (“berl”) [or Heinrich Theodor Böll]
[10e] This author’s Nobel Prize citation praises his 1959 book The Tin Drum for reviving German literature from “linguistic and moral destruction.”
ANSWER: Günter Grass [or Günter Wilhelm Grass]
[10h] This author of Vertigo said he hated the German postwar novel “like pestilence.” This author included photographs in a novel in which Jacques researches his mother’s internment in a concentration camp, Austerlitz.
ANSWER: W. G. Sebald [or Winfried Georg Sebald; or Max Sebald]
<Yingzhi Nyang, Literature - European - Long Fiction> ~22891~ <Editor: Jaimie Carlson>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 16.94 | 92% | 64% | 14% |