Julio Cortázar - 2024 ACF Fall

Question

In a novel by this author, Horacio Oliveira hallucinates that the Traveler’s wife Talita is his love interest, La Maga. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author of the novel Hopscotch, which contains a “table of instructions” that suggests two different orders in which to read the chapters.

ANSWER: Julio Cortázar

[10h] In this short story by Cortázar, Roberto Michel stops a woman seducing a teenage boy by taking photographs of them. This story inspired a Michelangelo Antonioni film of the same name.

ANSWER: “Blow-Up” [or Blowup; accept “Las babas del diablo” or “The Devil’s Drool”]

[10e] Cortázar also wrote a play depicting this character and his companion Friday returning to the desert island where he was shipwrecked. This character was originally created in a novel by Daniel Defoe.

ANSWER: Robinson Crusoe [or Robinson Crusoe or Robinson Kreutznaer; accept Adíos Robinson]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	9	11.11	100%	11%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	8	16.25	100%	25%	38%

Data


Cornell C	Syracuse	0	0	10	10
U of Rochester B	Binghamton B	0	0	0	0
Miami A (UG)	Michigan C	10	0	10	20
Miami C (DII)	CWRU C (UG)	0	0	10	10
Ohio State B (DII)	Michigan A (UG)	0	0	10	10
Michigan B (UG)	Jefferson County Scholars (DII)	0	0	10	10
Michigan State A	Michigan D (UG)	0	0	10	10
Miami B (UG)	Ohio State A (UG)	0	0	10	10
UW Wrath	UBC B	0	0	10	10
UW Chastity	Arizona State B	0	0	10	10
UBC A	UW Greed	0	0	10	10
UW Pride	UW Gluttony	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Emory A	Mississippi State A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Tennessee A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Vanderbilt A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Auburn A	10	0	10	20
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech E	0	0	10	10
Clemson A	Southern	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	UNC B	10	0	10	20
Liberty C	VCU	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	Duke A	10	0	10	20
William & Mary	Tusculum	0	0	10	10
UCLA C	Claremont A	10	0	10	20
Fordham A	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Columbia A (UG)	NYU A (UG)	0	0	10	10
Maryland B (DII)	Rowan A (DII)	0	0	10	10
Maryland A (DII)	Rutgers A (UG)	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame A	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	Notre Dame C	0	0	10	10
Iowa A	Illinois C	0	0	10	10
Iowa B	Illinois B	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame B	Purdue C	0	0	10	10
Northwestern B	SIUE	0	0	10	10
Illinois D	WashU A	10	10	10	30