Question
The speaker of a poem by an author from this country says, “The desire to die is king. / May your body always be / a beloved space for revelations.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this birth country of Alejandra Pizarnik. An author who grew up in this country wrote “Axolotl” and a 55-chapter novel with 9 “expendable chapters” that can be read in two different sequences.
ANSWER: Argentina [or Argentine Republic or República Argentina] (The novel is Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, who Pizarnik befriended in Paris.)
[10e] After moving from Argentina to Paris, Pizarnik befriended this author, who wrote the prologue for her collection The Tree of Diana. This Mexican author wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude.
ANSWER: Octavio Paz
[10h] Pizarnik included the poem “Revelations” in a 1968 collection titled for one of these objects. In a César Vallejo poem titled for these objects, the speaker says “I will die in Paris, on a rainy day.”
ANSWER: stones [or piedra; accept “Black Stone on a White Stone” or “Black Stone Lying on a White Stone” or “Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca” or Extracting the Stone of Madness or Extracción de la piedra de locura]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 63% | 25% |
Data
| Columbia A | Yale C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Bard A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Haverford | Penn B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn A | Princeton B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rutgers A | Princeton A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale A | Rutgers B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Vassar | Cornell C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |