Question
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 (The novel in the lead-in is Shan Sa’s The Girl Who Played Go; the play is Gao Xingjian’s Bus Stop.)
[10e] Two boys read French literature in a labor camp in a Dai Sijie novel titled for this author and the Little Chinese Seamstress. This author wrote 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 UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 50% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 60% | 60% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell R | Cornell MATLAB | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Syracuse+Rochester | RIT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |