Eka Kurniawan - 2023 Chicago Open

Question

Teenager Ajo Kawir struggles with sexual impotence in this author’s novel Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this author whose epic novel Beauty Is a Wound is about decades in the life of the prostitute Dewi Ayu.

ANSWER: Eka Kurniawan

[10m] Before writing novels, Kurniawan penned a monograph on socialist realism in the work of this author. This author wrote a tetralogy of novels, starting with This Earth of Mankind, while in a prison camp in Maluku.

ANSWER: Pramoedya Ananta Toer (“pruh-MOOD-yah uh-NUHN-tah toor”)

[10e] Kurniawan’s novels are often given this genre label, associated with authors like Miguel Ángel Asturias. Alejo Carpentier coined a variation of this genre label in the introduction to The Kingdom of this World.

ANSWER: magical realism [or magic real, realismo mágico, marvelous realism, or lo real maravilloso; reject “realism”]

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Summary


2023 Chicago Open	08/05/2023	Y	9	16.67	100%	56%	11%

Data


BHSU	The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.)	0	10	10	20
The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub	Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too	10	10	10	30
Evans Hall destruction awaiters	Hang et al., Robert Browning	0	0	10	10
I would prefer not to	Quasicrystal Silence	0	0	10	10
Team Name Think Detail	remembrance of lost time	0	10	10	20
Saint Peter Andre 3000	In Search of Things Past	0	10	10	20
[moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled?	Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness	0	0	10	10
The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club	The Canadians	0	10	10	20
Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill	I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble	0	0	10	10