In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

A boarding school in one of this author's novels is run by a hunchbacked crone named Sesame Weichbrodt. In that novel, the alcoholic hops merchant Alois Permaneder is briefly married to Tony, who also has a brief and loveless marriage to Bendix Grunlich. In another of his novels, Mynheer Peeperkorn and the protagonist are both attracted to the intriguing Russian woman Clavdia Chauchat. In one of his novels, Christian ends up in an insane asylum and Hanno dies of typhus, which is the culmination of the decline of the title family. He wrote about the contrasting philosophies of Naphta and Settembrini in a novel about Hans Castorp's stay in a Swiss sanatorium. For 10 points, name this author of Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, who also wrote Death in Venice.
Literature