Question
Anton Shammas translated many novels by his friend Emile Habbibi, such as The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist, into this language. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this language in which Amos Oz wrote A Tale of Love and Darkness.
ANSWER: Hebrew [or Ivrit]
[10h] Shammas broke ground as a Palestinian author by writing a memoiristic, Hebrew-language novel with this title. “Nevsky Prospekt” appeared in a Gogol collection of this name that also includes assorted musings on art.
ANSWER: Arabesques [or Arabeskot or Arabeski]
[10m] Two answers required. Shammas’s novel Arabesques is often described as an example of “minor literature” in a major language, a concept defined by these two writers in a book that analyzes Kafka as a German-speaking Bohemian Jew.
ANSWER: Gilles Deleuze AND Félix Guattari [accept Gilles Louis René Deleuze in place of “Gilles Deleuze”; accept Pierre-Félix Guattari in place of “Félix Guattari”]
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Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 44% | 11% |
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| The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | I would prefer not to | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | Saint Peter Andre 3000 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | Quasicrystal Silence | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| remembrance of lost time | The Canadians | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Team Name Think Detail | Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Hang et al., Robert Browning | wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | In Search of Things Past | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |