Round 12: Tossup 1

A character in this novel begins reading Balzac’s Colonel Chabert after fruitless days of research in the “Babylonian” towers of the Bibliothèque nationale. In this novel, a character believes that he sees his mother in four seconds of a filmed performance of a Pavel Haas piece. A discussion of star fort plans inspires this novel’s narrator (15[1])to take a train to the derelict fortress of Breendonk. This novel (*) prints the eyes of a lemur from the Antwerp Nocturama next to the eyes of Wittgenstein. Between talks with the narrator in Brussels in 1967 and at Liverpool Street Station in 1996, this novel’s title character learns that his birth parents sent him to Wales through the Kindertransport. For 10 points, what W. G. Sebald novel follows an architectural historian who shares his name with a Czech battlefield? ■END■

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