Question

This novel’s characters include the psychotic murderer Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra, whose only interests, torture and the music of Anton Bruckner, are not mutually exclusive. For 10 points each:
[10m] Identify this novel divided into six stream-of-consciousness chapters. The title character of this novel is not wearing his prophesied golden spur when he is found dead at an age between 100 and 220.
ANSWER: The Autumn of the Patriarch [or El Otoño del Patriarca]
[10h] In The Autumn of the Patriarch, after the title character refuses to allow Marines to enter his country, the Americans seize this national possession and transport it to Arizona.
ANSWER: the Caribbean Sea [prompt on the sea or the ocean]
[10e] Gabriel García Márquez’s Autumn of the Patriarch exemplifies the genre of the “dictator novel,” another instance of which is the novel El Señor Presidente by this writer from Guatemala.
ANSWER: Miguel Ángel Asturias
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Summary

2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y310.0067%33%0%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y316.67100%33%33%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y615.00100%33%17%
2023 BHSU Online04/15/2023Y415.0075%25%50%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield04/15/2023Y215.00100%50%0%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo04/15/2023Y36.6767%0%0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y323.3367%100%67%
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y310.00100%0%0%

Data

Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy StyleThe Passion According to C.H.001010
Cameron et al.Milan et al.0000
The Vulture's Guide to BuzzParth et al.001010