Question
The first chapter of this novel, a detailed description of a richly furnished flat written entirely in the conditional mood, opens by noting that “your eye, first of all, would glide over the grey fitted carpet….” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel that “is a piece of advertising copy” “in places,” per its author. This novel centers on Sylvie and Jerome, who spend a year teaching in Sfax before returning to Paris and becoming marketing executives.
ANSWER: Things: A Story of the Sixties [or Les Choses, une histoire des années soixante]
[10e] Georges Perec published Things two years before joining this movement founded by Raymond Queneau. While part of this movement, Perec wrote Life: A User’s Manual, whose last chapter uses only the periphrastic future.
ANSWER: OuLiPo [or Ouvroir de littérature potentielle or Workshop of Potential Literature] (Perec’s other Oulipo-period works include Espèces d’espaces, a section of which consists entirely of verbs in the infinitive.)
[10m] Perec’s frequent use of the conditional and simple future in Things counters this non-French collection’s claim that “the publicity image… uses only the future tense.” This collection of essays in art criticism was based on a BBC show.
ANSWER: Ways of Seeing (by John Berger)
<Arya Karthik, European Literature>
Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 10 | 20.00 | 100% | 90% | 10% |
Data
| BHSU | The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Hang et al., Robert Browning | Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | Evans Hall destruction awaiters | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| In Search of Things Past | I would prefer not to | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | Quasicrystal Silence | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | remembrance of lost time | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Team Name Think Detail | Saint Peter Andre 3000 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | The Canadians | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |