Question
Two answers required. An author from one of these two countries set a novel in the other in which a girl falls in love with a Japanese soldier after playing go with him in the town square. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these two countries. A writer from one of these two countries was exiled to the other after writing a play in which characters like Hothead, Glasses, and the Carpenter discuss why they’re waiting at the title location.
ANSWER: China AND France [accept Zhōngguó in place of “China”] (The novel in the lead-in is Shan Sa’s The Girl Who Played Go; the play is Gāo Xíngjiàn’s Bus Stop.)
[10e] Two boys read French literature in a labor camp in a Dài Sījié novel titled for this author and the Little Chinese Seamstress. This author included Père Goriot and Cousin Bette in the cycle The Human Comedy.
ANSWER: Honoré de Balzac [or Honoré Balzac; accept Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress]
[10m] Two French girls devise a literary hoax together in Yiyun Li’s The Book of Goose, which has earned it comparisons to this Italian author’s depiction of Lenù and Lila’s friendship in the Neapolitan Novels.
ANSWER: Elena Ferrante
<CM, European Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 50% | 25% | 25% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| James Madison A | South Carolina B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Carolina A | James Madison B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| NC State | North Carolina B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Duke | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |