Among this novel’s stylistic liberties taken from Tristram Shandy include two blacked-out pages inserted after the aspiring actor Arsenio is shot in the shoulder. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel which presents the work of the deceased writer Bustrófedon as Sternean blank pages between a fictional play by Nicolás Guillén (“ghee-YEN”) and a page of mirrored text. This novel about Havana’s nightlife is named for a tongue-twister.
ANSWER: Three Trapped Tigers [or Tres tristes tigres] (by Guillermo Cabrera Infante)
[10h] This narrator of another novel declares, “I have adopted the free-form of a Sterne,” in a note To the Reader. This character instructs the reader to insert Chapter 130 between the first and second sentences of Chapter 129.
ANSWER: Brás Cubas [or Brás Cubas]
[10e] A mid-novel prologue and blank pages reserved for the reader’s thoughts are among the Sterne-inspired typographical oddities in Christopher Unborn, a novel by this Mexican author of Terra Nostra.
ANSWER: Carlos Fuentes [or Carlos Fuentes Macías]
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