Q: 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.
This author was dubbed "Ironic" in the title of Erich Heller's book about him. His Brazilian mother Julia inspired Consuelo, the mother of a character who is mistaken for an escaped con man and nearly arrested on a visit to his hometown. In that novella by this author, the protagonist discusses art with the painter Lizaveta Ivanovna and attends a ball where he sees people who resemble his childhood friends Hans Hansen and Ingeborg Holm. One of his characters continually encounters a (*) red-haired man whose face is caked with white makeup and repeatedly notices the odor of disinfectant used to ward off the spread of cholera. An erotic obsession with a Polish boy named Tadzio fills the last days of Gustav von Aschenbach in a 1912 novella by this author. For 10 points, name this German author of Tonio Kroger and Death in Venice.
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Literature