Question

The final three lines of a novel in this language spell out “e-n-d” after its funnel-shaped last paragraph progressively loses words and letters. The US government quarantines the passengers of a duplicated airline flight in that 2020 novel in this language, The Anomaly. (15[1])Another novel in this language follows a knight’s tour through a 100-room apartment (15[3])building, frozen in time at the death of an (15[1])obsessive jigsaw puzzle (15[1])solver named (15[1])(*) Bartlebooth. A story in this language is retold 99 times in Exercises in Style, (10[1])which was written by the author of a novel in this language about a ten-year-old girl visiting her uncle Gabriel. The disappearance of Anton Vowl occurs in a novel in this language written entirely without (10[1])the letter (10[1])e. (10[3])For 10 points, name this language used to write the novel A Void and others by Oulipo (“oo-lee-PO”) authors Raymond Queneau (“kuh-NO”) and Georges Perec ■END■

ANSWER: French [or Francaise] (The Anomaly is by contemporary Oulipo author Herve Le Tellier. The novel in the third sentence is Life: A User’s Manual by Perec. The last unnamed novel is Zazie in the Metro by Queneau.)
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Anderson WangAnderson et al.U[C]SD5515
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