European Lit Flashcards
Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen
Blindness
José Saramago
The Book of Disquiet
Richardo Reis
Os Lusiads/Lusiads
Luis de Camoes
Portuguese epic poem about Vasco de Gama
Os Lusiads
In this novel, the “dog of tears” follows the doctor’s wife, who is the only person to escape the title disability
Blindness
The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov
The Three Sisters
Anton Chekhov
Tuzenbach
The Three Sisters
In this play, the servant Firs is trapped in the title estate
The Cherry Orchard
Madame Ranevskaya
The Cherry Orchard
Lopakhin
The Cherry Orchard
Solyony
The Three Sisters
“In the Penal Colony”
Franz Kafka
The Red Room
Johan August Strindberg
The Road to Damascus
Johan August Strindberg
The Father
Johan August Strindberg
The Ghost Sonata
Johan August Strindberg
Miss Julie
Johan August Strindberg
The Little Prince
Antoine Saint-Exupery
The protagonist of this novel meets a king, a drunk, and a lamplighter after leaving his home
The Little Prince
Faust
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Mephistopheles
Faust
Auerbach’s Tavern/Wine Cellar in Leipzig
Faust
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
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
Marie-Claude
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Heinrich Theodor Böll
Alois Straubleder (has a ruby ring)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
A nickname used in this play is “Little Cucumber”
The Cherry Orchard
Sonnets to Orpheus
Rainer Marie Rilke
The Duino Elegies
Rainer Marie Rilke
One of his collections was dedicated to Wera Knoop
Rainer Marie Rilke
Dance of Death
Johan August Strindberg
RUR (Rozems universal robot)
Karel Čapek
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett