Ârets första litteraturquiz!

Som en klok läsare föreslog: Vad passar bättre dagar som denna än ett Fredagens litteraturquiz?
Förra âret avslutades med De vilda detektiverna av Roberto Bolano.
Detta inleds med nâgot helt annat och som spontan ledtrâd kan väl anmärkas att jag var tvungen att se efter om detta var en översättning eller ej. Svaret var nämligen ej uppenbart men är dock negativt.

Pedantic Ada once said that the looking up of words in a lexicon for any other needs than those of expression - be it instruction or art - lay somewhere between the ornamental assortment of flowers (which could be, she conceded, mildly romantic in a maidenly headcocking way) and making collage-pictures of disparate butterfly wings (which was always vulgar and often criminal). Per contra, she suggested to Van that verbal circuses, "performing words", "poodle-doodles", and so forth, might be redeemable by the quality of the brain work required for the creation of a great logogriph or inspired pun and should not preclude the help of a dictionary, gruff or complacent.
    That was why she admitted "Flavita". The name came from alfavit, an old Russian game of chance and skill, based on the scrambling and unscrambling of alphabetic letters. It was fashionable throughout Estoty and Canady around 1790, was revived by the "Madhatters" (as the inhabitants of New Amsterdam were once called) in te beginning of the nineteenth century, made a great comeback, after a brief slump, around 1860, and now, a century later, seems to be again in vogue, so I am told, under the name of "Scrabble", invented by some genius quite independently from its original form or forms.