The narrator imagines these animals as statues made of Parisian plaster in the piece “Five Stories on a Single Theme.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this animal that becomes the obsession of the narrator of a novel who ponders the charcoal outlines of a dog and a naked man and woman that her former maid Janair had drawn on her wall.
ANSWER: cockroaches [or baratas; prompt on insects or arthropods]
[10e] “Five Stories on a Single Theme” is by this Brazilian author, who wrote about a woman who eats a cockroach in her novel The Passion According to G.H.
ANSWER: Clarice Lispector [or Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector]
[10h] “Five Stories on a Single Theme” is one of Lispector’s pieces in this genre, which are collected in the 2018 book Too Much of Life. This Portuguese-language genre of short, informal writings on daily topics are published in newspaper or magazine columns.
ANSWER: crônicas [or chronicles]
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