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Hedda Gabler

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Henrik Ibsen

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Blindness

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José Saramago

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The Book of Disquiet

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Richardo Reis

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Os Lusiads/Lusiads

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Luis de Camoes

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Portuguese epic poem about Vasco de Gama

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Os Lusiads

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In this novel, the “dog of tears” follows the doctor’s wife, who is the only person to escape the title disability

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Blindness

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The Cherry Orchard

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Anton Chekhov

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The Three Sisters

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Anton Chekhov

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Tuzenbach

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The Three Sisters

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In this play, the servant Firs is trapped in the title estate

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The Cherry Orchard

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Madame Ranevskaya

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The Cherry Orchard

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Lopakhin

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The Cherry Orchard

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Solyony

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The Three Sisters

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“In the Penal Colony”

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Franz Kafka

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The Red Room

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Johan August Strindberg

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The Road to Damascus

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Johan August Strindberg

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The Father

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Johan August Strindberg

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The Ghost Sonata

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Johan August Strindberg

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Miss Julie

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Johan August Strindberg

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The Little Prince

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Antoine Saint-Exupery

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The protagonist of this novel meets a king, a drunk, and a lamplighter after leaving his home

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The Little Prince

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Faust

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Johann Wolfgang Goethe

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Mephistopheles

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Faust

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Auerbach’s Tavern/Wine Cellar in Leipzig

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Faust

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
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A character in this novel hates Beethoven but makes use of the Beethoven derived phrase “es muss sein” to describe fate
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Marie-Claude
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Heinrich Theodor Böll
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Alois Straubleder (has a ruby ring)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
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A nickname used in this play is “Little Cucumber”
The Cherry Orchard
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Sonnets to Orpheus
Rainer Marie Rilke
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The Duino Elegies
Rainer Marie Rilke
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One of his collections was dedicated to Wera Knoop
Rainer Marie Rilke
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Dance of Death
Johan August Strindberg
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RUR (Rozems universal robot)
Karel Čapek
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Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
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Repeats the phrase “Nothing to be done”
Waiting for Godot
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Pozzo
Waiting for Godot
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The slave Lucky
Waiting for Godot
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In a monologue in this play “Testew and Cunard” are repeatedly mentioned
Waiting for Godot
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“Litanies of Satan”
Charles Baudelaire
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“The Albatross”
Charles Baudelaire
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“Revolt” and “Spleen and Ideal” are sections in this collection
Les Fleurs du Mal
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“The Lady With the Dog”
Anton Chekhov
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The Mother, The Father and the Step-Daughter
Six Characters in Search of an Author
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The play in a play Mixing it Up
Six Characters in Search of an Author
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Madame Pace
Six Characters in Search of an Author
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A woman with a pair of scissors dangling from her waist commits a vulgar trick in this play
Six Characters in Search of an Author
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Dimitri Gurnov
“The Lady with the Dog”
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The wife of Von Dideritz (Anna)
“The Lady with the Dog” (which is a Pomeranian)
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“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic hierarchies?”
Duino Elegies
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“Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror”
Duino Elegies
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This poet wonders if the addressee has “read the poet Gaspara Stamp sufficiently yet?”
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Decameron
Boccaccio
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Dioneo
The Decameron
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Marquis de Saluzzo
The Decameron
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Fiometta and Filostrato
The Decameron
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
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The main character of this novel watches a Fernandel movie, a fact used against him in court
The Stranger
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Meursault
The Stranger
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Bazarov
Fathers and Sons
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Adso of Melk
The Name of the Rose
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William of Baskerville
The Name of the Rose
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The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
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The Prague Cemetery
Umberto Eco
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Foucaults Pendulum
Umberto Eco
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Captain Simonini
The Prague Cemetery
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Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
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Edmond Dantès
The Count of Monte Cristo
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Château d’If
The Count of Monte Cristo
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This novel’s chapter “The Fifth of October”
The Count of Monte Cristo
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In this novel, Héloïse gets addicted to poisoning people to inherit a fortune
The Count of Monte Cristo
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The Red and the Black
Stendhal
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Julien Sorel
The Red and the Black
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Madame de Renard
The Red and the Black
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Abbe Pirard (mentor)
The Red and the Black
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The end of the first volume of this novel references The Vicar of Wakefield
The Red and the Black
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Madame de Fervaques
The Red and the Black
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Prince Korasoff
The Red and the Black
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Odette’s daughter Gilberte
In Search of Lost Time/Remembrance of Things Past
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“Swann’s Way”
In Search of Lost Time
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Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
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Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin
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The Bronze Horseman
Alexander Pushkin
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“The Overcoat”
Nikolai Gogol
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“St. John’s Eve”
Nikolai Gogol
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“The Nose”
Nikolai Gogol
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“Nevsky Prospekt”
Nikolai Gogol
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Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen
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Oswald
Ghosts

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