Moby-Dick - 2023 ACF Nationals

Question

Danish explorer Peter Freuchen produced a severely-abridged version of this novel that cuts it down to what he called “a man’s book.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this novel whose first German translation was so terrible that it cut the sentence “Call me Ishmael.”

ANSWER: Moby-Dick [or Moby-Dick; or, the Whale]

[10h] To preface their translation of Moby-Dick, this author wrote a novella in which Melville gains inspiration from an Irish revolutionary named Adelina White. This author depicted the Provençal countryside in novels like Colline.

ANSWER: Jean Giono

[10m] This author made a Flemish translation of Moby-Dick during a relatively quiet period in 1945. This deconstructionist and Nazi collaborator wrote “The Resistance to Theory” and the book Blindness and Insight.

ANSWER: Paul de Man [or Paul Adolph Michel Deman]

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Summary


2023 ACF Nationals	04/22/2023	Y	24	15.42	96%	50%	8%

Data


WUSTL A	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Claremont A	Rutgers A	10	0	0	10
Minnesota A	Columbia A	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	Minnesota B	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Purdue A	10	0	0	10
McGill A	Illinois A	10	0	0	10
Penn State A	South Carolina A	10	0	0	10
Michigan A	Rutgers B	10	0	10	20
Stanford A	Chicago A	10	0	10	20
Texas A	MIT A	10	0	10	20
Vanderbilt A	NYU A	10	0	10	20
Virginia A	Yale B	10	0	0	10
Cornell A	Brown A	10	0	10	20
Harvard A	Northwestern A	10	0	10	20
Iowa State A	Georgia Tech B	10	0	0	10
North Carolina A	Toronto A	10	0	10	20
UC Berkeley B	Houston A	10	0	0	10
Chicago C	Indiana A	10	0	0	10
Duke A	Florida A	10	0	0	10
Florida B	Columbia B	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Yale A	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A	Maryland A	10	0	10	20
WUSTL B	Penn A	0	10	10	20
UC Berkeley A	Cornell B	10	0	0	10