Contexts of Prose - AP English Literature and Composition

Although he died in France, Cortázar was born to Argentinian parents in Belgium.

Cortázar is known first and foremost as an Argentinian writer. Most of his works, Bestiary (1969) included, were written and published in Spanish.

Born in 1929, Milan Kundera is the author of the philosophical novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being (published in 1984).

Bohumil Hrabal wrote Too Loud a Solitude (1977). Ota Pavel wrote How I Came to know A Fish (1973). Czesław Miłosz wrote The Poem of the Pearl (1982). Bruno Schulz wrote Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (1937).

Born in Brno, Milan Kundera is Czech. The Unbearable Lightness of Being was published in 1984.

Since 1975, Kundera has lived and written in France.

With the exception of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), all of the titles are by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. White Nights was published in 1848. Poor Folk was published in 1846. The Raw Youth was published in 1875. The House of the Dead was published in 1862.

I Served the King of England (1971) is a novel by Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997).

Milan Kundera wrote The Joke (1969). Ota Pavel wrote Golden Eels (1985). Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote Two Hundred Years Together (2002).

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (1964) is a one-sentence novel by Hrabal. The rest are titles by the Czech writer Milan Kundera. The Joke was published in 1969. Immortality was published in 1990. Life is Elsewhere was published in 1969. The Festival of Insignificance was published in 2015.

Born in Brno, Bohumil Hrabal is Czech and is one of the Czech Republic’s best known writers.

I Served the King of England was published in 1971.

Bohumil Hrabal published I Served the King of England in 1971.

This is the novelist and social critic Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008). The Gulag Archipelago was published in 1973.

Bruno Schulz wrote The Street of Crocodiles in 1934. Bohumil Hrabal wrote Closely Watched Trains (1965). Günter Grass wrote Cat and Mouse (1961). Ludmilla Petrushevskaya wrote There once lived a girl who seduced her sister's husband, and he hanged himself : love stories (2013).

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian writer and a well known critic of the Soviet Union, particularly its forced labor camps.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) is also by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The other titles are all by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal. Too Loud a Solitude was published in 1976. Harlequin’s Millions was published in 2014. The Death of Mr. Baltisberger was published in 1975. Little Town Where Time Stood Still was published in 1989.

After a draft was confiscated by the KGB, the novel was published in 1973, but not initially in Solzhenitsyn’s native Russia.

This is the title of a short story as well as the collection in which it is found (alternately titled Cinnamon Shops). It is by the Jewish author Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). The Street of Crocodiles was published in 1934.

Günter Grass wrote The Flounder (1977). Ludmilla Petrushevskaya wrote There once lived a girl who seduced her sister's husband, and he hanged himself : love stories (2013). Milorad Pavić wrote Landscape Painted with Tea (1988). Fernando Pessoa wrote The Book of Disquiet (1982).

Bruno Schulz is a Polish writer and artist.

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, a 1937 novel, is by Schulz. All the rest are works by the Russian author Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.

The novel was originally published in Polish in 1934, but it wasn’t translated into English until the 1960s.

The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel) (1959)is a novel by the novelist, poet, and artist Günter Grass (1927-2015).

Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha (1922). Herta Müller wrote Nadirs (1982). Christa Wolf wrote _Parting from Phantoms (1995). Cornelia Funke wrote The Thief Lord (2000). All of these answer choices are noted German fiction writers of the 20th century.