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Which novel describes just one day?

In Search of Lost Time

Ulysses

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Steppenwolf

Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June 1904, making a lot of parallels between it and events the mythical story of Odysseus (Latin Ulysses). Joyce fans worldwide now celebrate 16 June as Bloomsday.

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Phillip K. Dick, author of SF novels that have been made into numerous films ("Blade Runner", "Minority Report", "Paycheck") denied the existence of a certain person. Who was that person?

Albert Einstein

Which institution awards the Pulitzer prize?

Swedish Royal Academy

Columbia University

In Samuel Beckett's play 'Waiting for Godot', how does Godot look like?

he is a very old man

he never shows up

he is a devil in the form of handsome man

Which famous novel was rejected by a number of publishers, so eventually its author had to pay the cost for publication himself?

Ulysses (Joyce)

The Trial (Kafka)

In Search of Lost Time (Proust)

The Name of the Rose (Eco)