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.

In one novel by this author, the title character dances with Barbra Flick while choosing not to pursue the tanner Emil Rothfuss's wife. This author of Knulp wrote about Joseph Knecht's pursuit of the role of Magister Ludi in the title intellectual game, and described a journey undertaken with Govinda in search for the Buddha in another novel. This author of The Glass Bead Game wrote about the saxophonist Pablo bringing Hermine to the Magic Theatre, causing Harry Haller to stab her. For 10 points, name this German author of Siddhartha and Steppenwolf.
Literature

This dynasty continued a system in which one month out of every five was given to military service by those who lived within 500 li of the capital; that was the Fubing system. A Buddhist savings bank stocked by donations was liquidated during this dynasty and was called the "Inexhaustible Treasury." Governors known as "jiedushi" first sprang up during this period under emperor (*) Xuanzong. A major insurrection during this dynasty ended after Shi Chaoyi killed himself. This dynasty was interrupted by the second Zhou dynasty when Ruizong announced that his mother, Wu Zetian, would be emperor. For 10 points, name this Chinese dynasty that lasted from 618 until 907 and faced the An Lushan rebellion.
History

John Mood wrote books about this author "on Death and other Oddities" and "On Love and other Difficulties. " William Gass translated this author's concept of "weltinnenraum" as "innerworldspace" in a book titled "reading" this author. This poet described a caged animal who sees "a thousand bars, and beyond them no world" in a poem inspired by a Rodin sculpture, and praised Gaspara Sampa as an ideal hero in the first of a set of ten poems. This author of "thing-poems" like "The Panther" asked "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders" in poems named for a castle. For 10 points, name this German poet of the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies.
Literature