Packet 8: Tossup 5

In this story, a man uses the third person to describe himself as a “type” whose social awkwardness made a friend break off a visit. (10[1])This story’s narrator imagines that his room has rapidly aged, but concludes, “a whole moment of happiness! (10[1])Is that too little for the whole of a man’s life.” In this story, a woman recounts reading Walter Scott novels and seeing The Barber of Seville with her grandmother’s (10[1])lodger, (-5[1])to whom the narrator helps draft a love letter. (-5[1])Like Sabhattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat, this 1848 story from the diary of a “dreamer” (10[1])was a surprise (-5[1])bestseller (10[1])in 2024 thanks to its rediscovery on social media. (-5[1])This story’s narrator develops an unrequited love for the (10[1])spurned woman (10[1])Nastenka after (10[1])meeting her by a canal in St. (10[1])Petersburg. (10[1]-5[2])For 10 points, (-5[1])name this Fyodor Dostoevsky (10[2])story (10[1])set over four of the title (10[2])summer evenings. ■END■ (10[4]0[3])

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