Question
Teenager Ajo Kawir struggles with sexual impotence in this author’s novel Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author whose epic novel Beauty Is a Wound is about decades in the life of the prostitute Dewi Ayu.
ANSWER: Eka Kurniawan
[10m] Before writing novels, Kurniawan penned a monograph on socialist realism in the work of this author. This author wrote a tetralogy of novels, starting with This Earth of Mankind, while in a prison camp in Maluku.
ANSWER: Pramoedya Ananta Toer (“pruh-MOOD-yah uh-NUHN-tah toor”)
[10e] Kurniawan’s novels are often given this genre label, associated with authors like Miguel Ángel Asturias. Alejo Carpentier coined a variation of this genre label in the introduction to The Kingdom of this World.
ANSWER: magical realism [or magic real, realismo mágico, marvelous realism, or lo real maravilloso; reject “realism”]
<John Lawrence, World Literature>
Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 56% | 11% |
Data
| BHSU | The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Evans Hall destruction awaiters | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| I would prefer not to | Quasicrystal Silence | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Team Name Think Detail | remembrance of lost time | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Saint Peter Andre 3000 | In Search of Things Past | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | The Canadians | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |