While translating a treatise by José Norberto Allende, the narrator of this short story becomes overwhelmed by the slow stirring of a woman’s hands. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this short story in which the narrator does not realize until later that he had inadvertently rescued a young boy who was being propositioned by an older woman by the Seine, angering a previously unnoticed man in a grey hat.
ANSWER: “Blow-Up” [or “Las babas del diablo” or “Devil’s Spit” or similar translations]
[10e] “Blow-Up” is by this Argentine author, who included 99 “expendable” chapters in the novel Hopscotch.
ANSWER: Julio Cortázar (“cor-TAH-sar”) [or Julio Florencio Cortázar]
[10h] The narrator of a Cortázar story is disturbed by the photos he takes of local peasants during his visit to this author. This poet-priest, who founded an artists’ colony in the Solentiname Islands, wrote Zero Hour and Cosmic Canticle.
ANSWER: Ernesto Cardenal [or Ernesto Cardenal Martínez; prompt on Martínez]
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