In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
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Question: In one novel by this author, the title character dances with Barbra Flick while choosing not to pursue the tanner Emil Rothfuss's wife. This author of Knulp wrote about Joseph Knecht's pursuit of the role of Magister Ludi in the title intellectual game, and described a journey undertaken with Govinda in search for the Buddha in another novel. This author of The Glass Bead Game wrote about the saxophonist Pablo bringing Hermine to the Magic Theatre, causing Harry Haller to stab her. For 10 points, name this German author of Siddhartha and Steppenwolf.

Answer: Literature


Question: poem by this author describes a wall inscribed with the phrase "PARAS THIRTEEN, BOGSIDE NIL" and is an elegy for a man who "drank like a fish" before he was "blown to bits. " He included the image of a "four foot box, a foot for every year" in a poem narrated by a student who "sat all morning in the college sick bay counting bells knelling classes to a close. " This author of "Casualty" wrote of a student of Miss Walls who collects "jampotfulls" of (*) "frogspawn" in another poem. He wrote that "my squat pen rests" "between my finger and my thumb" in a poem that compares his profession to his father's labor in the bogs. For 10 points, name this poet who included "Mid-Term Break" and "Digging" in his collection The Death of a Naturalist, an Irish Nobel winner who translated Beowulf.

Answer: Literature


Question: In one work by this author, the owner of a restaurant tries to get involved in her husband's political campaign, but the conservatives end up using her past promiscuity to win, and a character created by this author goes out of her way to not tan, but dies from a heart attack when attempting to save her children from an undertow. The author of After the Banquet and The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea, the protagonist dreams of eating a schoolmate and realizes that he is gay in his novel Confessions of a Mask, and one figure created by him buys arsenic and a knife, but ends up not committing suicide after burning the title locale. FTP, Mizoguchi ends up torching the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in a novel by what Japanese author

Answer:
Literature


