Andrei Platonovich Platonov - 2024 Penn Bowl

Question

One novel by this author begins with the father of Sasha Dvanov (“dih-VAH-nov”) drowning himself in a lake to see the afterlife. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Soviet author of Chevengur. Workers like Zhachev and Voschev dig the title location under a large house in another novel by this author.

ANSWER: Andrei Platonovich Platonov [or Andrei Platonovich Klimentov] (the second novel is The Foundation Pit)

[10m] The British edition of Chevengur pitched it as the “Soviet” version of this book. A short story attributes authorship of this work to the fictional Pierre Menard.

ANSWER: Don Quixote [accept “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”]

[10e] A villager in Chevengur names himself after this Russian author of a novel about Prince Myshkin, The Idiot.

ANSWER: Fyodor Dostoevsky [or Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevskiy]

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Summary


2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley	11/02/2024	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU	11/02/2024	Y	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago	11/02/2024	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
2024 Penn Bowl Florida	10/26/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard	10/26/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite	11/02/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Playtest	10/12/2024	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 Penn Bowl Texas	11/02/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl UK	10/26/2024	Y	5	24.00	100%	80%	60%
2024 Penn Bowl UNC	10/26/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


BU	Harvard A	0	0	10	10
Yale A	MIT	0	10	10	20
TAMU	Houston	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	10	20
See it	3HK1MM	10	10	10	30
Four Times I Have Despised My Soul	LSE	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Northwestern B	10	10	10	30
Northwestern A	Indiana B	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Minnesota	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame B	WUSTL	0	10	10	20
UF B	UCF	0	10	10	20
UF A	UF C	0	10	10	20
Berkeley B	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Stanford	Berkeley C	10	10	10	30
Ohio State C	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Carnegie Mellon	Michigan B	0	0	0	0
Carnegie Mellon	Michigan B	10	0	0	10
Carnegie Mellon	Michigan B	0	0	10	10
Carnegie Mellon	Michigan B	10	0	10	20
Carnegie Mellon	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Carnegie Mellon	Michigan B	10	10	0	20
Carnegie Mellon	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Carnegie Mellon	Michigan B	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A	Pittsburgh	0	0	10	10
Maryland	NYU B	0	10	10	20
JHU A	NYU A	0	10	10	20
Columbia	Princeton	0	10	10	20
TOAD	Khalil v Carbolic Shisha Ball Co	10	10	10	30
Ill-Advised Buzz	bruh	10	10	10	30
Say it	Gressenheller A	10	10	10	30
The Crying of Team 49	Sorted	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech A	RIT A	0	10	10	20
UNC A	Duke A	0	10	10	20
UNC B	UNC C	0	10	10	20
Oxford School for Quizness	Limp Chriskit	0	0	10	10