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Which literary prize did Marcel Proust receive?
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In Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which character does not turn out to be homosexual?
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In Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which instrument does Baron de Charlus' lover Charlie Morel play?
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In Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which significant French political issue is often discussed by the characters?
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Which of the following is not a volume in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past? (The C. K. Scott-Moncrief translation)
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Three of these characters from Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past are the same person. Which one is therefore the odd one out?
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In 1922, two of the most talented writers of their day met in Paris, and spoke no more than a few words to each other. One of them commented that the other 'wanted to talk about dukes; I wanted to talk about chambermaids.' Who were they?
  
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Which nineteenth century writer heavily influenced Marcel Proust's aesthetics?
(Hint: Proust translated two of his books into French between 1904 and 1906)
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In Proust, what is the relationship between the Duchesse de Guermantes and the Princesse de Laumes?
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In Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, what is the name of the narrator's first girlfriend?
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Although it is often claimed that Anthony Powell's "A Dance to the Music of Time" is partially based on Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past", there are few explicit references to the earlier work. Which of the following incidents does however occur?
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Which of Virginia Woolf's novels owes a debt to Marcel Proust's Proust : A la recherche du temps perdu, tome 1 in theme and form?
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Whose last words were: "Does nobody understand?"
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What name did the French author Henri-Marie Beyle use as his nom de plume?
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Whose autobiography is entitled (in translation) "If It Die"?
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In Marcel Proust's Swann's Way, what is the first name of M. Swann?
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In In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, what is not true of M. Swann?
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What British writer has sold more novels in France than any other author, French writers included?
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Two of the most famous writers of all-time are believed to have died on the same day - which two?
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Of which one of these French writers did novelist and critic Edmund White NOT write a (short) biography, as of 2008?
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Who wrote these words:
"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past, ..."?
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Times change. A La Recherche du Temps Perdu used to be called "Remembrance of Things Past" (from the Ecclesiastes, later used in a Shakespeare sonnet). Today it's titled "In Search of Lost Time".
But some things never change. The first book is still titled "Swann's Way" and come page 49, the Narrator will bite into that madeleine, and the aroma released will remind him of his childhood in _______________.
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What did André Gide later come to call "one of the most stinging and remorseful regrets of my life"?
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The chapter headings "Du Côté de Chez Beaver" and "Du Côté de Chez Tod" in Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust are literary bows to ...
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The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt features a character named "Seraphita". After a novel by which of these writers could she possibly have been named?
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Shahrazad famously spins her stories in A Thousand and One Nights in an interlinked manner, in such a way that each word and each story added serves to delay the ending and to extend time (and thus, to prolong her life); potentially, infinitely so. Often -- particularly when she tells stories within a story -- she actually even makes her listener/reader go all the way back to the point where (s)he started.
Which of the following modern books likewise contain examples of such circular or "life-extending" storytelling (or even a direct or indirect reference to "1001 Nights")?
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Which one of these authors' work does NOT receive an extended discussion in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's groundbreaking work of criticism: Epistemology of the Closet?
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Fill in the missing name in this statement of Umberto Eco:
"Though so different in style, two writers have offered us an image for the next millenium: James Joyce and ____________. The first designed with words what the second designed with ideas: the original, the one and only World Wide Web. The Real Thing. The rest will remain simply virtual."
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Who said of William Shakespeare that nothing could be "more trivial and contemptible than his work" and that the implications of his plays "are of the basest, most immoral kind"?
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Who wrote this in his obituary of George Bernard Shaw?
"I never went to see him -- out of kindness. For I was convinced, and still am, that he had never read a line of mine, and that would have embarrassed him as well as me."
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