In an epic in this language, Abtin marries a Korean princess after fleeing a king with elephant ears and tusks. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this language of a poetry collection used to caption pornographic cartoons in Osamu Dazai’s novel No Longer Human. Edward FitzGerald translated that set of quatrains from this language.
ANSWER: Persian [or Fārsī] (The epic is the Kushnameh by Irānshāh, while the collection is the Rubā‘iyāt of Omar Khayyam.)
[10h] A member of the Persian Ming Cult sings lines from the Rubaiyat in the third entry of this trilogy, The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber. Louis Cha used the pen name Jīn Yōng for this trilogy of wǔxiá (“woo-shyah”) novels.
ANSWER: Condor Trilogy [or Shèdiāo Sānbùqǔ or She-tiao San-pu-ch’ü or Se Diu Saam Bou Kuk; accept The Legend of the Condor Heroes or Shèdiāo Yīng Xióng Zhuàn or She-tiao Ying-hsiung Ch’uan or Se Diu Jing Hung Zyun]
[10m] This other Persian-language work is performed at a Seoul audio theater in Bae Suah’s Untold Night and Day, whose protagonist reads it in German. This novel by Sadegh Hedayat is titled for a bird hallucinated by its narrator.
ANSWER: The Blind Owl [or Boof-e koor]
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