Round 4: Tossup 19

In this novel, the narrator muses how poop “is a more onerous theological problem than is evil,” while pondering whether or not God has intestines. After the two irreligious protagonists of this novel die crushed beneath a truck, one receives the epitaph “HE WANTED THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH” from his religious son, Simon. A surgeon in this novel becomes a window washer after refusing to renounce his article comparing the communist party to Oedipus. In this novel, the painter Sabina moves (10[1])to America after declaring a war on kitsch. For 10 points, name this novel about Tomas and Tereza (10[2])during the Prague (10[1])Spring, by Milan Kundera. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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