Question

While at this place, a character daydreams about being a footsoldier in Napoleon’s army during his failed invasion of Russia. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this place attended by the obedient character Kraus in a 1909 novel. This place’s director makes advances on the novel’s narrator, a bright servant-in-training.
ANSWER: Institute Benjamenta (“ben-yah-mehn-tah”) [or Benjamenta Institute; accept anything indicating school run by the Benjamentas]
[10m] The Institute Benjamenta is attended by the young Jakob von Gunten in a novel by this author, who spent the end of his life writing tiny “microscripts” in a sanatorium.
ANSWER: Robert Walser
[10e] The meaningless rules and inefficient staff in Jakob von Gunten are concepts that this author later explored in his novel The Castle.
ANSWER: Franz Kafka

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