In a story from Sergio Pitol’s (“SAIR-hee-oh pee-TOLL’s”) collection Mephisto’s Waltz, this animal gives the narrator a message of “twelve enlightening words.” For 10 points each:
[10h] A novel by a different author opens with a man’s description of a young woman from the Carpathians painting what type of animal at a zoo?
ANSWER: panthers [accept black panthers; prompt on big cats or felines or Cat People; prompt on black leopards] (The novel is Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman.)
[10e] Pitol’s story “The Panther” is included in Sun, Stone, and Shadows, an anthology of stories from this country. This country is home to the author of the poem “Sunstone.”
ANSWER: Mexico [or United Mexican States; or Estados Unidos Mexicanos; reject “Estados Unidos”] (Octavio Paz wrote “Sunstone.”)
[10m] Sun, Stone, and Shadows also includes this author’s story “Tell Them Not to Kill Me!”, which is part of his collection The Burning Plain. In a novel by this author, the title tyrant lets the town die of hunger out of spite while he is mourning Susana’s death.
ANSWER: Juan Rulfo [or Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno; prompt on Vizcaíno] (The novel is Pedro Páramo.)
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