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 (10[1])son, (10[1])Simon. A surgeon in this novel becomes a window washer after refusing to renounce (10[1])his article comparing the communist party to Oedipus. In this novel, the painter Sabina moves to America (10[2]-5[1])after declaring a war on kitsch. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this novel about Tomas and Tereza during the Prague Spring, by Milan Kundera. ■END■ (10[3])

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