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Packet J: Bonus 15

Weathered photographs of a floor plan and a commemorative stamp bookend a celebrated nine-page sentence in this novel that describes the horrors of the Theresienstadt (“tuh-RAY-zin-shtott”) concentration camp. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this W. G. Sebald novel about an architectural historian and kindertransport refugee who travels to Prague in order to discover the fates of his birth parents.
ANSWER: Austerlitz
[10h] James Wood’s introduction to Austerlitz compares the novel’s style of nested dialogue to that of this author. In a novel by this author, Roithamer builds his sister a house he calls the “Cone” in a forest.
ANSWER: Thomas Bernhard [or Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard] (The novel is Correction.)
[10e] The first photographs within Austerlitz juxtapose a close-up of owl eyes with the eyes of this philosopher. In Bernhard’s novel Correction, Roithamer’s life parallels that of this author of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
ANSWER: Ludwig Wittgenstein [or Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein]
<HG, European Literature> | Packet-J_Indiana-A_UNC-A_UW-A

HeardPPBE %M %H %
6112.6287%26%13%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Cambridge ADurham1001020ME
Cambridge BSheffield001010E
Cambridge CNYU C001010E
Cambridge EManchester1001020ME
LSEBristol1001020ME
Oxford AImperial B10101030MHE
Oxford BWarwick A0000
Oxford CWarwick B1001020ME
Southampton ACambridge D001010E
Southampton BImperial A001010E

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
California2025-02-01✓323.33100%67%67%
Florida2025-02-01✓310.00100%0%0%
Great Lakes2025-02-01✓611.67100%17%0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01✓68.3367%17%0%
Midwest2025-02-01✓613.3383%17%33%
North2025-02-01✓313.3367%33%33%
Northeast2025-02-01✓58.0080%0%0%
Overflow2025-02-01✓516.0080%60%20%
South Central2025-02-01✓210.00100%0%0%
Southeast2025-02-01✓313.33100%33%0%
UK2025-02-01✓1015.0090%50%10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01✓613.33100%17%17%
Upstate NY2025-02-01✓36.6767%0%0%