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One of this author’s narrators questions “strange” phrases like “my land,” “my air,” or “my water,” in a story that ends as a prince’s rotting body is reburied in a uniform. Men leading dogs cry “ulyulyu (10[1])(“ool-yool-yoo”)!” during a family’s elaborate wolf-hunt in one of this author’s novels. A novel by this author briefly takes the perspective of a bird-dog during a snipe-hunting (10[1])outing (10[1])in a marsh. (10[2])In “Art as (10[1])Device,” (10[1])Viktor Shklovsky praised the “defamiliarization” (10[2]-5[1])created by this author adopting an old horse’s point (10[2])of view (10[1])in his story “Strider.” (10[1])This author, who became vegetarian after his 1870s spiritual crisis, described (10[1])Makhotin’s Gladiator being overtaken (10[1])in an officers’ steeplechase that reveals the protagonist’s affair. (10[1])For 10 points, what author created the horse (-5[1])Frou-Frou, (10[2])whose (10[1])back is broken (10[2])while being ridden by Vronsky in Anna Karenina? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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